Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ultra-fast fashion

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English

Syllables: ul-tra---fast -fash-ion
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

7

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Fast fashion with an online-only retail and marketing model and very short product cycles directly driven by consumer demand.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"But the rise of ultra-fast fashion marks a major shift in the retail world. Two decades ago, the first fast-fashion companies redrew the lines of a staid industry. Now their faster, cheaper successors are upending it."
"Furthermore, a more nefarious form of fast fashion has emerged from a new breed of online-only ultra-fast fashion retailers who make heavy use of sophisticated digital marketing tactics to promote an ever-changing array of trendy items at pocket-money prices."
"Ian Brossat, a Communist party senator in Paris, said: “Shein coming to BHV is a real provocation, particularly since the national assembly and senate recently approved a law to restrict ultra-fast fashion.”"

Etymology

From ultra-fast + fashion or ultra- + fast fashion.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does ultra-fast fashion mean?: Fast fashion with an online-only retail and marketing model and very short product cycles directly driven by consumer demand.
Where does ultra-fast fashion come from?: From ultra-fast + fashion or ultra- + fast fashion.

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