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Burton's Legal Thesaurus, 7th Edition
Author
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William C. Burton
This trusted, focused, and accessible lexical authority is designed to enable the choice of the precise word to fit the thought.
Publication Language: English
Published: January 01, 2026
Publisher: LexisNexis U.S.
Now in its 50th year, Burton's Legal Thesaurus brings together 600,000 synonyms, legal phrases and associated concepts, including more than 500 newly added full entries. The Seventh Edition by William C. Burton, Esq., adds timely new entries spanning 'cybersmear,' 'open source,' 'agentic,' 'preponderance of evidence,' 'NIL,' 'coffee badging' and 'AI bias.'
Use Burton's Legal Thesaurus to:
- Say precisely what you mean with language that captures the intended nuance
- Strengthen legal writing with clearer, more exact word choices suited to the argument or issue
- Expand research possibilities through related terminology and concepts that may open further avenues of inquiry
- Stay current with more than 500 newly added full entries reflecting contemporary legal and workplace terminology
Foreword by U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
Introduction
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Entries (A-Z)