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/fed'euhr euh leez", -lees"/, n. (often cap.)awkward, evasive, or pretentious prose said to characterize the publications and correspondence of U.S. federal bureaus.[FEDERAL + -ESE]
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federalese
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federalese — |fed(ə)rə|lēz, ēs noun ( s) Usage: often capitalized slang : prose that is marked by a needlessly involved and awkwardly pretentious sentence structure and use of a jargon of polysyllabic words and that is sometimes said to characterize the… … Useful english dictionary
federalese — noun Date: 1944 bureaucratese … New Collegiate Dictionary
federalese — Synonyms and related words: Varietyese, Wall Streetese, Washingtonese, bunkum, business English, businessese, cinemese, collegese, commercialism, computerese, economese, gobbledygook, journalese, legalese, medical Greek, medicalese, newspaperese … Moby Thesaurus
federalese — the jargon of bureaucrats on the federal payroll … Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games
federalese — n. unnecessarily complex language used in U.S. government documents and correspondence … English contemporary dictionary
federalese — fed·er·al·ese … English syllables
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