governmentese

gov·ern·men·tese

noun \ˌgə-vər-mən-ˈtēz\

Definition of GOVERNMENTESE

: jargon held to be characteristic of government officials

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