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LEGALESE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does legalese mean?
• LEGALESE (noun)
The noun LEGALESE has 1 sense:
1. a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law
Familiarity information: LEGALESE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("legalese" is a kind of...):
expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)
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