English-Dutch translations for trousers

• broek
  Wij laten onze broek zakken voor de Amerikanen. We are dropping our trousers to the Americans.
  Onze rapporteur, die naar ik meen een prachtige broek draagt, zou zo gekleed, met die broek, vandaag de dag niet eens het Turkse parlement mogen betreden. Our rapporteur, who is I think wearing a lovely pair of trousers, would not today be allowed to walk into the Turkish parliament in her trouser suit.
  Maar u geeft ons enkel de garantie dat u het vermoeden heeft dat we onze broek mogen aanhouden. But all we can be sure of is that you are voicing the assumption that we will be able to keep our trousers.
• pantalon
  Twee voorbeelden. Pull-overs: +747%, ander voorbeeld, herenpantalons: +2000%, dat wil zeggen maal twintig. Imports of Chinese jumpers have increased by 747% and of men’s trousers by 2000%, which adds up to a 20-fold increase.

Definition of trousers

• An article of clothing that covers the part of the body between the waist and the ankles or knees, and is divided into a separate part for each leg

Examples

• The trousers need to be shortened
• Why can women wear trousers when men can’t wear skirts?

Related words

• overtrousers
• nankeen trousers
• drainpipe drain trousers
• all mouth and no trousers
• all mouth and trousers
• wear the trousers
• put one's trousers on one leg at a time
• work trousers
• cargo trousers