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 Translation for 'officialese' from English to French
NOUN   officialese | -
adm.ling.
langage {m} administratif
officialese
adm.ling.pol.
langue {f} officielle
officialese [coll.]
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Translation for 'officialese' from English to French

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officialese
langage {m} administratifadm.ling.
officialese [coll.]
langue {f} officielleadm.ling.pol.
Usage Examples English
  • The terms "officialese" or "bureaucratese" refer to language used by officials or authorities.
  • The "Lower Austrian-Styrian Alp Railway" ("Niederösterreichisch-Steirische Alpenbahn") as the railway was known in Austro-Hungarian officialese, was thereby complete.
  • The result was that the German of the former East Germany includes two separate vocabularies, both different from the German of the Bundesrepublik: the official Socialist one (Newspeak or officialese) and the critically humorous one of everyday life.
  • Several similar concepts to officialese exist, including "genteelism", "commercialese", "academese", and "journalese".
  • In Estonian, the agent can be included by using the postposition "poolt", although using such a construction instead of the active voice is criticized as a foreignism (influenced by German, Russian and English) and characteristic of officialese.

  • Government departments sent Gowers many examples of officialese so extreme as to be amusing; a small committee of senior officials formed to help him and comment on his proposals.
  • Karel Jozef de Graeve (October 23, 1731, Ursel – August 2, 1805, Sint-Denijs-Westrem) − usually written Charles-Joseph De Grave after the French invasion− was Raadsheer in the Flemish Court and author of juridical, officialese and historical works.
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