Footwear

Definition: Footwear

Footwear

Noun

1. Clothing worn on a person's feet.

2. Covering for a person's feet.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Footwear

Crosswords: Footwear

I'm drowning in footwear! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Bolton Footwear Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Lacrosse Footwear, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Union Footwear Public Company Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Pan Asia Footwear Public Co. Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Polishes and Creams for Footwear, Furniture and Floors in Africa (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Creating Fabulous Footwear For Fantastic Dolls (reference)

• Footwear Impression Evidence: Detection, Recovery and Examination, Second Edition (reference)

• Footwear Materials and Process Technology (reference)

• Spirit of Siberia: Traditional Native Life, Clothing, and Footwear (reference)

• The Complete Footwear Dictionary (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Athletic Footwear Market Facts (reference)

• Calendar Of Footwear Industry Events (reference)

• Canadian Footwear Journal (reference)

• Footwear News (reference)

• Footwear News - Microfilm (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Practical Footwear,,, [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Sure Foot Get-A-Grip Large Non-Slip Footwear (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Protective clothing or footwear should be worn by those exposed to contaminated water or soil because of their job or recreational activities. (references)

Business

American footwear is little known in Poland. (references)

Footwear networks are well developed in Poland. (references)

Leon is a world player in the production of footwear. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

Egypt's exports to the U.S. are predominantly clothing and footwear. (references)

Uk

Clothing and footwear in the UK accounts for a declining share of consumer spending. (references)

Romania

They were led by iron and steel products, apparel, machinery, footwear, and furniture. (references)

Political Economy

Moldova

The leading exports are foodstuffs, wine, tobacco, clothing, and footwear. (references)

Brazil

Among the principal exports are iron ore, coffee, airplanes, soybeans, footwear, automobiles, and telecommunications equipment. (references)

AUSTRALIA

However, the passenger motor vehicles and textiles, clothing and footwear industries are still protected by high tariffs (15 and 25 percent respectively) where they will remain, pending further review, until 2005. (references)

Trade

New Zealand

The country of origin must, however, be shown on footwear, clothing items, and dry-cell batteries. (references)

Jamaica

Textiles, garments, lubricating oils, clothing, footwear, luggage, handbags, and leather garments are excluded from CARIBCAN. (references)

New Zealand

Most tariffs have already been eliminated or reduced to low levels; the remaining high tariffs are in footwear, clothing and textiles. (references)

Travel

Russia

Water-resistant footwear with thick soles is advised, because the pavement is often rough and large puddles form after rain. (references)

Worker Rights

Cambodia

Most garment and footwear factories respected the minimum wage. (references)

Brazil

The Pro-Child Institute in the state of Sao Paulo coordinates a labeling program in the footwear industry. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "footwear": footwear industry ♦ leather footwear ♦ plastic footwear ♦ rubber footwear ♦ sports footwear ♦ waterproof footwear. Additional references.

Beginning with "footwear": footwear-as-fashion.

Albanian

sandale (footgear, sandal, sandals), këpucë (footgear, overshoe, shoe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لباس القدم, ‏حذاء (boot, footgear, shoe), ‏خف (fluff, pump, sandal, slipper). (various references)

Chinese 

鞋类. (various references)

Czech

obuv (footgear, shoes). (various references)

Danish

fremstilling af fodtøj efter mål,herunder ortopædisk fodtøj (including orthopaedic footwear, production of hand-made footwear), skosvaerte (cream for footwear, polish), pudsemiddel til fodtoej (cream for footwear, polish), babystoevler uden paasatte saaler (bootee, footwear without applied soles for babies), børnefodtøj (baby's footwear, infant's footwear). (various references)

Dutch

schoeisel. (various references)

Esperanto

piedvestaĵo. (various references)

Finnish

jalkineet (boots and shoes). (various references)

French

chaussure. (various references)

German

fußbekleidung, Wettläufe (foot races), schuhzeug, schuhwerk (footgear), schuhwaren, Schuhware. (various references)

Greek 

παπούτσια (shoes), υπόδηση, υποδήματα. (various references)

Hebrew 

הנעלה (footgear). (various references)

Hungarian

lábbeli (boot, foot-gear), cipő (foot-gear, shoe). (various references)

Italian

calzature, calzatura (footgear, shoe). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

履き物 (clogs). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くつ (shoes, stubborn), あしごしらえ, げそく (footgear), はきもの (clogs). (various references)

Korean 

신발. (various references)

Manx

cullee coshey. (various references)

Pig Latin

ootwearfay.(various references)

Portuguese

calçados. (various references)

Romanian

încãlţãminte (foot-gear). (various references)

Russian 

обувь (footgear, foot-wear, shoes). (various references)

Sepedi

dieta. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obuća (footgear). (various references)

Spanish

calzado (footgear, shod, wearing shoes). (various references)

Swazi

ti-cátfulo. (various references)

Swedish

fotbeklädnad (footgear), skor (shoes), skodon (shoes). (various references)

Turkish

ayakkabı (pump, shoe), ayak giyecekleri (footgear), çorap (hose, sock, stocking). (various references)

Turkmen 

aяakgap (shoe). (various references)

Ukrainian

взуття (footgear). (various references)

Misspellings

"Footwear" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Footera, Fotedar, funwear. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: foetor, footer, twofer, wafter, woofer.

-3 letters: afoot, afore, after, fetor, forte, oater, ofter, orate, tawer, tower, wafer, water, wooer, wrote.

-4 letters: aero, fare, faro, fate, fear, feat, feta, foot, fora, fore, fort, frae, frat, fret, froe, frow, raft, rate, rato, reft, roof, root, rota, rote, roto, tare, taro, tear, toea, tora, tore, toro.

+2 letters: floodwater, waterflood, waterproof.

+3 letters: floodwaters, waterfloods, waterproofs.

+4 letters: waterflooded, waterproofed, waterproofer, weatherproof.

+5 letters: waterflooding, waterproofers, waterproofing, weatherproofs.