window dressing

Definitions

Accounting

• noun the practice of putting goods on display in a shop window, so that they attract customers
• noun the practice of putting on a display to make a business seem better or more profitable or more efficient than it really is

Economics

• noun transactions shown in financial statements with the sole purpose of making a business seem better or more profitable or more efficient than it really is

Idiom

• attempt to make something look better than it really is

Nearby Definitions of “window dressing”

• winding wire
• windlass
• Windmill Theatre
• window
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• window-licker
• window of time analysis
• window seat
• window stool
• window tinting

Contexts for “window dressing”

4 definitions in context
• Accounting
• Economics
• Idiom