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Bar talk?
Answer for the clue "Bar talk? ", 8 letters:
legalese
Alternative clues for the word legalese
- It might include the adverbs "forthwith" and "heretofore"
- Jurist's jargon
- Language involving fine print?
- Party of the first part and party of the second part, e.g.
- Lawyers talk of high winds in shelter
- Good beers in general creating talk at the bar?
- Jargon, to a jury
- What lawyer writes, accounting for storms in sheltered area
Word definitions for legalese in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The technical talk of the legal profession, the argot of lawyers. 2 Wording that resembles how a lawyer writes, especially such that is confusing to the layperson.
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 .
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.