: a narrow length of material worn about the neck and tied in front
especially
: four-in-hand
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Black & Decker’s electric drills, for example, compete not just with other drills but with Father’s Day gifts like neckties.
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Vincent Gregoire, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
The production of our diaries is like a high-end necktie factory, which, in a day produces many customer’s products simply by continually changing the material on the same production line.
—Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 17 Dec. 2024
Classic neckties Bottega Veneta, Valentino, PradaEstrop/Julien M. Hekimian/WWD/Getty Images
Nearly every menswear brand (and plenty of womenswear labels, too) showed classic neckties for fall and winter.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 26 Sep. 2024
On June 20, 1979, President Jimmy Carter—sporting a bushy haircut and a wide necktie—invited dignitaries and reporters onto the roof of the White House to watch the installation of thirty-two solar water-heating panels.
—Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
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Vincent Gregoire, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
The production of our diaries is like a high-end necktie factory, which, in a day produces many customer’s products simply by continually changing the material on the same production line.
—Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 17 Dec. 2024
Classic neckties Bottega Veneta, Valentino, PradaEstrop/Julien M. Hekimian/WWD/Getty Images
Nearly every menswear brand (and plenty of womenswear labels, too) showed classic neckties for fall and winter.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 26 Sep. 2024
On June 20, 1979, President Jimmy Carter—sporting a bushy haircut and a wide necktie—invited dignitaries and reporters onto the roof of the White House to watch the installation of thirty-two solar water-heating panels.
—Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Necktie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/necktie. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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necktie
noun
neck·tie
-ˌtī 
: a narrow length of cloth worn about the neck and tied in front
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