officialese

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] (disapproving) language used in official documents that is thought by many people to be too complicated and difficult to understand

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

officialeseEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus officialeseEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary officialeseEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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offering offertory offhand office office block office boy office-holder office hours officer office worker official

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This entry for officialese is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.

Is officialese a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, officialese is tagged as noun.

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