What does window dressing mean?

Definitions for window dressing
win·dow dress·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. facade, window dressingnoun

    a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant

  2. window dressingnoun

    the decoration of shop windows

Wiktionary

  1. window dressingnoun

    The decorative display of retail merchandise in store windows

  2. window dressingnoun

    The goods and trimmings used in such display

  3. window dressingnoun

    A means of creating a deceptively favourable impression of something or someone; something for appearance only.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of window dressing in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of window dressing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of window dressing in a Sentence

  1. Vinod Nair:

    Overall improving liquidity and likely window dressing by funds may keep equities at a higher keel till 2014 ends.

  2. Peter Downing:

    If Justin Trudeau wants to quell Western separation sentiment he needs to declare the Trans Mountain expansion in the national interest, everything else is window dressing.

  3. Mehdi Hosseini:

    I do expect some sort of a handshake for window dressing, but not a clear resolution with details coming out.

  4. Sebastien Godinot:

    Behind window-dressing rhetoric, they clearly want to sabotage the The OECD deal.

  5. Duncan Hunter:

    The changes offered up by the White House prove that neither the right questions were asked nor were any lessons learned, wholesale changes are needed, but what's being put forward is nothing more than window dressing, I fear.

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