garment industry

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   makers and sellers of fashionable clothing

   Synonymsapparel industryfashion industryfashion businessrag trade

   Broaderindustry

Questions about garment industry

What does garment industry mean?

garment industry means "makers and sellers of fashionable clothing".

What is another word for garment industry?

Close synonyms include apparel industry, fashion industry, fashion business, rag trade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is garment industry a common word?

garment industry 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.