Usually means: Specialized language used in law.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word legalese:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. legalese: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. legalese: Merriam-Webster
  3. legalese: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. legalese: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. legalese: Collins English Dictionary
  6. legalese: Vocabulary.com
  7. Legalese, legalese: Wordnik
  8. legalese: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. legalese: Wiktionary
  10. legalese: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. legalese: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. legalese: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. legalese: Dictionary.com
  14. Legalese: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. legalese: Rhymezone
  16. legalese: FreeDictionary.org
  17. legalese: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. legalese: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. legalese: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. legalese: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. legalese: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. legalese: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. legalese: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Legalese: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (informal, derogatory) Technical jargon common in the legal profession, the argot of lawyers.
noun:  (informal, derogatory) Wordy, ostentatious talk or writing that resembles legal writing, especially when confusing to laypeople; bureaucratese; officialese.

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