Meaning & use
fatigues
Loose, durable clothing worn by soldiers for everyday duties and combat, typically in a camouflage pattern.
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The recruits changed into their fatigues before beginning the morning training exercise.
He kept an old pair of army fatigues from his years of military service.
A note on using this word
Fatigues is used mainly in the plural, similar to pants or scrubs, and rarely appears in singular form.
Words with a similar meaning
combat uniform
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