Phrase Hound found 89 phrases and 7 compound words that contain clauses. The most common are listed below. Open clauses in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 89
- conscience clausesplural of conscience clause: A clause in a law, affecting religious matters, to relieve persons of conscientious scruples, especially one to prevent their children being compelled to undergo particular religious instruction.
- dependent clausesplural of dependent clause: A subordinate clause.
- exit clausesplural of exit clause: A provision in a legal document or lease allowing a signatory or lessee to terminate the contract legally and usually without penalty under certain circumstances.
- grandfather clausesplural of grandfather clause: A clause or section, especially in a law, granting exceptions for people or organisations who were affected by previous conditions.
- Horn clausesplural of Horn clause: A clause (disjunction of literals) with at most one positive literal.
- independent clausesplural of independent clause: A clause that can stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence and contains at least a subject and a verb.
- noun clausesplural of noun clause: A clause that is used as a subject or object.
- relative clausesplural of relative clause: A subordinate clause that modifies or gives further information about a noun or sometimes a whole statement; in English, it may be introduced by a relative pronoun (sometimes optional) such as that, which or who.
- sunset clausesplural of sunset clause: A provision of a law which says the law or something under it, as an agency or benefit established by it, will come to an end on a particular date or after a particular period of time.
- subordinate clausesplural of subordinate clause: A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence but rather functions as a noun, adjective, or adverb within a sentence, having been cued by any of various introductory words that subordinate it (complementize …
- forum selection clausesplural of forum selection clause: A contractual provision determining the territorial (or less often only international, or subject matter) jurisdiction for a legal dispute concerning a concrete legal relationship.
- Henry VIII clausesplural of Henry VIII clause: A provision in a bill before Parliament, that if enacted as an Act, would enable the Government to amend (including repeal) the Act or other primary legislation by secondary legislation.
- no-trade clausesplural of no-trade clause: A clause in a contract by players who do not wish to be traded without their consent.
- adverbial clausesplural of adverbial clause: A subordinate clause that functions like an adverb within a main clause.
- Mr. Clausesplural of Mr. Claus
- Mrs. Clausesplural of Mrs. Claus
- Ms. Clausesplural of Ms. Claus
- Santa Clausesplural of Santa Claus: A figure said to bring presents to people (especially children) at Christmas time.
- Mrs. Santa Clausesplural of Mrs. Santa Claus
- acceleration clausesplural of acceleration clause: a provision in a contract that makes all obligations to be performed under the contract due immediately upon a specific occurrence, such as a breach
- break clausesplural of break clause: A term in a tenancy agreement that allows the tenancy to come to an end before the stated date of termination.
- comment clausesplural of comment clause: A short, parenthetical clause inserted into a sentence to express the speaker's attitude, opinion, or stance toward the main clause.
- comparative clausesplural of comparative clause: A type of subordinate clause used to express a comparison between two entities, typically introduced by words such as than or as.
- conditional clausesplural of conditional clause: A dependent clause that expresses a condition, typically introduced by if, unless, or similar subordinators, which must be met for the action in the main clause to occur.
- content clausesplural of content clause: A dependent clause that functions similar to a noun phrase and expresses the content of a thought, statement, question or sentiment.
Compound words 7
- subclausesplural of subclause: A subordinate clause.
- afterclausesplural of afterclause: A clause that occurs after another clause in a document.
- nonclausesplural of nonclause: An utterance that is nonclausal, such as a noun phrase, prepositional phrase, or interjection.
- Santaclausesplural of Santaclaus: A figure said to bring presents to people (especially children) at Christmas time.
- Santiclausesplural of Santiclaus: A figure said to bring presents to people (especially children) at Christmas time.
- semiclausesplural of semiclause: A partial clause; part of a clause.
- Santeclausesplural of Santeclaus: A figure said to bring presents to people (especially children) at Christmas time.