Usually means: Introducing contrast in legal documents.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. whereas: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whereas: Merriam-Webster
  3. whereas: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whereas: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whereas: Collins English Dictionary
  6. whereas: Vocabulary.com
  7. Whereas, whereas: Wordnik
  8. whereas: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. whereas: Wiktionary
  10. whereas: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. whereas: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. whereas: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. whereas: Dictionary.com
  14. whereas: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Whereas (book), Whereas: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Whereas: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. whereas: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. whereas: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. whereas: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. whereas: FreeDictionary.org
  21. whereas: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. whereas: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Whereas: Legal dictionary

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adverb:  (obsolete) Where (that).
noun:  A clause, as in legal documents, stating whereas.

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