fleece

Word family

Related topics: Animals, Agriculture, Clothes

fleece1 /fliːs/ noun

1. HBATA[countableC] the woolly coat of a sheep, especially the wool and skin of a sheep when it has been made into a piece of clothing 〔尤指连毛带皮做成衣服的〕羊毛

2. DCC[uncountableU] an artificial soft material used to make warm jackets 〔制作保暖上衣的〕绒头织物

3. [countableC] British EnglishBrE a jacket made of this artificial material 绒头织物短上衣

Examples from the Corpus

fleece• In general, the same clothing was used underneath - Rhoval/Modal thermals and Polartec 200 fleece.• fleece-lined slippers• Early wills and inventories show records for fleece, flax and hemp in many areas.• Locally, fleece may be available from your garden centre but do check the quality and price before buying.• Thinsulate fleece: heat reflective fleece.• A lamb's fleece was sprawled in the middle of the stage.• The drawcords on the fleece and the Merlin sleeping bag pull in freely and close tightly if required.• Its white fleece runs on over her fingers.• Then they unrolled as a silver-white fleece, under the silent cold light of the moon.

fleece2 verb [transitiveT] informal

CHEATto charge someone too much money for something, especially by tricking them 〔尤指用花招〕敲…的竹杠

Examples from the Corpus

fleece• But nothing's worse than driving into an auto repair shop, sight unseen, and being fleeced.• The Crown Prosecution Service is seeking to seize up to £40m that he fleeced from 16,000 people.• She estimates he fleeced her of about £50,000 by tricking her into buying fake antiques.• She fleeced him for everything he had.• The Tsar, the landowner, Denikin's troops, and your Comrades all fleeced him.• Nevertheless, he thought Theo unduly alarmist in warning him that women like her were out to fleece him.• Authorities estimate at least 300 elderly couples were fleeced in the scheme.• Sturdy rogues intent on fleecing me, as I was them.• The technology is ready to roll and it's not like they've shied away in the past from fleecing motorists.• Some airport shops are accused of fleecing their customers, who don't have any choice but to use them.

From Longman Business Dictionary

fleecefleece /fliːs/ verb [transitiveT] informal

to charge someone too much money for something, usually by tricking them

He fleeced investors of more than $500,000 by selling the recording rights to songs he didn’t own.

Origin fleece1

Old English fleos

fleece1 nounfleece2 verb

Chinese

Corpus