subclause

plural subclauses

1. grammarA subordinate clause.
2. A subsidiary clause in a legal contract etc.

present singular third person subclauses · participle present subclausing · participle past subclaused · past subclaused

1. transitiveTo qualify with a subclause.

   Too many serious reviews are subclaused, hyperbolic conscious, egotistical and self-indulgent, not to mention boring.

   1970, Yale/Theatre, volumes 3-4, page 86

   2 more examples

   In a light dry style, free from academic subclausing, the ever-acute Smith gets right into the minutiae of these communities - who is growing what and why - and how it affects the neighbours.

   2002, New Scientist, volume 176, numbers 2367-2375, page 57

   However, in their execution, they can be too exacting, too demanding, creating a practicality monster that rampages through German society in its high-visibility jacket, measuring, judging, clausing, subclausing, contracting, securing, […]

   2016, Adam Fletcher, How to be German - Part 2: in 50 new steps