Uniform of a type intended to be worn by soldiers in actual combat.
 a hulking first lieutenant in combat dress
 Example sentencesExamples
-  Marching behind are 15 Japanese samurai wearing combat dress and carrying 4ft-long swords.
 -  Some participants pass and kick footballs to each other, while others go the distance in full combat dress.
 -  Five gunmen, dressed in combat dress and balaclavas, fired a volley of shots in the air in front of a cheering crowd.
 -  As one military analyst noted: ‘Standing on the armoured vehicle with the cannon not capped and in combat dress, that's a show of force.’