legalese

/L EH1 G AH0 L IY0 S/
noun
  1. 1

    Technical jargon common in the legal profession, the argot of lawyers.

  2. 2

    Wordy, ostentatious talk or writing that resembles legal writing, especially when confusing to laypeople; bureaucratese; officialese.

Translate “legalese” into another language

Choose a language below to open the translator with English selected as the source language.

🇪🇸Spanish🇫🇷French🇩🇪German🇸🇦Arabic🇨🇳Chinese Simplified🇯🇵Japanese🇮🇳Hindi🇧🇷Portuguese🇷🇺Russian🇰🇷Korean🇮🇹Italian🇹🇷Turkish
See all 248+ languages

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/legalese

Back to Dictionary