dress code

1. 1.

   a set of rules specifying the correct manner of dress while on the premises of the institution (or specifying what manner of dress is prohibited)

   Broadercode

Questions about dress code

What does dress code mean?

dress code means "a set of rules specifying the correct manner of dress while on the premises of the institution (or specifying what manner of dress is prohibited)".

Is dress code a common word?

dress code is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.