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aforesaid

adjective

C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Mentioned or referred to earlier in the same document, used to point back to a previously stated matter.

The aforesaid sum shall be held on trust for the beneficiaries named in the Schedule.

Similar: aforementioned, said

Topic: Legal drafting in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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