subclause
Noun
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Noun
subclause (plural subclauses)
- (grammar) A subordinate clause.
- A subsidiary clause in a legal contract etc.
subclause (subclauses, present participle subclausing; past and past participle subclaused)
- (transitive) To qualify with a subclause.
- 1970, Yale/Theatre (volumes 3-4, page 86)
- Too many serious reviews are subclaused, hyperbolic conscious, egotistical and self-indulgent, not to mention boring.
- 2002, New Scientist (volume 176, issues 2367-2375, page 57)
- In a light dry style, free from academic subclausing, the ever-acute Smith gets right into the minutiae of these communities - who is growing what and why - and how it affects the neighbours.
- 2016, Adam Fletcher, How to be German - Part 2: in 50 new steps
- However, in their execution, they can be too exacting, too demanding, creating a practicality monster that rampages through German society in its high-visibility jacket, measuring, judging, clausing, subclausing, contracting, securing, […]
- 1970, Yale/Theatre (volumes 3-4, page 86)
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