As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.
trouser
(noun) a garment (or part of a garment) designed for or relating to trousers; āin his trouserās pocketā; āhe ripped his left trouser on the fenceā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
trouser (plural trousers)
(used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to trousers.
(in clothing retail and fashion) A pair of trousers.
• Outside the clothing retail and fashion industries, the use of the noun trouser to refer to a pair of trousers is rare.
trouser (third-person singular simple present trousers, present participle trousering, simple past and past participle trousered)
(transitive, British, Ireland, informal) To put money into one's trouser pocket; to pocket.
(transitive, British, Ireland, informal) To legally remove funds from an organization for personal use.
(transitive, British, Ireland, informal) To secretively steal an item or money for personal use.
• retours, rotures, rouster, routers, tourers
Source: Wiktionary
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.