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| clause [ klawz ] (plural clauses) |
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1. group of words: a group of words consisting of a subject and its predicate
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2. section of legal document: a distinct section of a document, especially a legal document, that is usually separately numbered
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| [13th century. < French< assumed Latin clausa "close of a rhetorical period" < claudere "to close"] |
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 claus·al adjective |
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