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governmentese
noun gov·ern·men·tese \ˌgə-vər-mən-ˈtēz\
Definition of GOVERNMENTESE
: jargon held to be characteristic of government officials
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First Known Use of GOVERNMENTESE
1944
Rhymes with GOVERNMENTESE
Abdülaziz, Albigenses, Aragonese, archdiocese, Averroës, Barcelonese, bona fides, bureaucratese, cheval-de-frise, computerese, Diogenes, Dodecanese, Dutch elm disease, Egas Moniz, Eumenides, Euripides, Florida Keys, Great Pyrenees, Hesperides, Hippocrates, Hippomenes, Indo-Chinese, kissing disease, mad cow disease, Marie-Louise, officialese, Pentagonese, Philoctetes, Sammarinese, social disease, suicide squeeze, superficies, telegraphese, Themistocles, Thucydides, Vietnamese
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