| 单词 | governmentese |
| 释义 | governmentese in British English (ˌɡʌvəmənˈtiːz, ˌɡʌvənmənˈtiːz) noun the jargon and long-winded language peculiar to government departments and documents governmentese in American English (ˌɡʌvərnmənˈtiz, -ˈtis, -ərmən-) noun complicated or obscurantist language thought to be characteristic of government bureaucratic statements; officialese Also: governmentalese (ˌɡʌvərnˌmentlˈiz, -ˈis, ˌɡʌvər-) Word origin [government + -ese]-ese is a suffix forming adjectival derivatives of place names, esp. countries or cities;frequently used nominally to denote the inhabitants of the place or their language(Faroese; Japanese; Vietnamese; Viennese). By analogy with such language names, -ese occurs in coinages denoting in a disparaging, often facetious way a characteristicjargon, style, or accent (Brooklynese; bureaucratese; journalese; computerese) |
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