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Solicitor's jargon
Answer for the clue "Solicitor's jargon ", 8 letters:
legalese
Alternative clues for the word legalese
Word definitions for legalese in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"the language of legal documents," 1914, from legal + language name ending -ese .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And only rarely do they allow their managers to couch frank appraisals in canned legalese and innocuous psychobabble. ▪ Baer promptly did so, hiding behind a cloud of legalese to justify his action. ▪ However, the statement will ...
Usage examples of legalese.
Thicker than the Corban phone book, it was a perfect bound document filled with nearly a hundred single-spaced pages of text, all written in dense legalese.
Benedict allows it, you can subpoena me to testify, that much legalese I understand.
After the endless hours of negotiation, her sentencing was dry and full of legalese.
On the table sat the leather-bound business plans containing all the lease conditions, the numbers, and paragraphs of legalese about the dummy corporation Quentin had established to export tropical fruit.