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Definition of legalese
legalese
noun - uncountable
- pejorative term for the formal language used in legal speech and legal documents.
Citation from "Forget high tech, jurors and judge stick to notes", AP, Don Babwin, Aug 15 2010 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: corporate-speak (list of).
- See more words with the same meaning: the law (related to).
Last edited on Sep 05 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 05 2010.
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Other terms relating to 'corporate-speak (list of)': | |
| Definitions include: an item on a "to do" list. | |
| Definitions include: to reduce the number of people employed in an organization or company to the point that there are no longer enough to carry out the work effectively. | |
| Definitions include: to debate at length on an unimportant decision. | |
| Definitions include: from now, into the future. | |
| Definitions include: to stick one's head up out of a cubicle to look at something. | |
| Definitions include: crazy, irrational. | |
Other terms relating to 'the law (related to)': | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "I am not a constitutional lawyer". | |
| Definitions include: to retain an attorney or attorneys | |
| Definitions include: to prosecute to the full extent of the law. | |
| Definitions include: An acronym has been invented for the term, but long after the term entered use: "Beautiful Intellectuals That Cause Hard-ons." | |
| Definitions include: to retain legal counsel. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "some other dude did it". | |
| Definitions include: Older slang term used to refer to one's "lawyer" or "attorney" | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "I am not a lawyer." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "I am a lawyer". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "I am not your lawyer". | |
| Definitions include: nose. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "this is not legal advice". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "you are not a lawyer." | |
| Definitions include: the effect whereby jurors in criminal trials believe scientist expert witnesses because the expert witnesses remind them of characters in television crime dramas like "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". | |
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| Definitions include: to make more interesting. | |
| Definitions include: "please". | |
| Definitions include: imitation of the vocal sound made by a person with severe developmental disabilities. | |
| Definitions include: a traffic jam. | |
| Definitions include: a conservative zombie, i.e. a person with conservative beliefs who does not devote significant thought to those beliefs. | |
| Definitions include: pie-in-the-sky, fancy, crazy and elitist. | |
| Definitions include: to not wear underwear. | |
| Definitions include: Used to describe the one's inability to function normally in a social situation surrounding a musical or stage performance due to preoccupation with the performance itself. | |
| Definitions include: a person from Ireland. | |
| Definitions include: a partial erection. |
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