phraseology.

1. Characteristic wording, expressions or ways of formulating something.

2. The study of characteristic, recurring or conventional expressions and their patterns.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• legal phraseology
• distinctive phraseology

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The legal phraseology was clarified without changing the obligation it expressed.

Distinctive phraseology helped the editor compare the unsigned passages.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: language analysis, sense distinction, word formation analysis, precise reference. Disciplines: academic writing, linguistics, dictionary and usage analysis. Commonness: moderately common.