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Meaning of Verbiage | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˈvɜː(ɹ).bi.ɪd͡ʒ

Definitions

  1. Overabundance of words.
  2. The manner in which something is expressed in words; word choice.

Equivalents

Examples

“bureaucratic verbiage”
“We're done drafting our paper except for the final check to see whether any verbiage can be reduced.”
“A very garrulous person, he approached the counter in a fog of verbiage.”
“Near-synonyms: phrasing; terminology; phraseology”
“In each article of this series, there is a paragraph on nutrition; the verbiage for it was developed by consensus among the section editors, and therefore no elective rewording should be done (by others) in any such paragraph.”
“We're done drafting our paper except for the final verbiage on fire safety, which will be supplied by the safety engineers.”
“The comparison of coincidences in the verbiage of different languages, and affinity of etymological formation, are interesting subjects of philological investigation.”
“Use concise military verbiage.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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