Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
work-clothing is a noun meaning "clothing worn for doing manual labor". It carries one recorded sense.
clothing worn for doing manual labor
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for work-clothing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.