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Answer for the clue "Contract contents ", 8 letters:
legalese
Alternative clues for the word legalese
- Jurist's jargon
- Jargon used by members drinking beer close to judge?
- Party of the first part and party of the second part, e.g.
- A style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law
- Some fine print
- What some judicial opinions are written in
- What lawyer writes, accounting for storms in sheltered area
Word definitions for legalese in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
legalese \legalese\ n. A style of writing or speaking heavily emphasizing the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law, to the point where a speech or document may be incomprehensible to non-specialists.
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.