verbiage.
Overabundance of words.
Meaning & usage
Overabundance of words.
bureaucratic verbiage
We're done drafting our paper except for the final check to see whether any verbiage can be reduced.
The manner in which something is expressed in words; word choice.
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.
Where this word comes from
From French verbiage. Compare verb meaning "word" in verbal and verbose.
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