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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 lawplay

  Familiarity information: LEGALESE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LEGALESE (noun)


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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