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fine print

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fine print  (fn)
n. In both senses also called small print.
1. The portion of a document, especially a contract, that contains qualifications or restrictions in small type or obscure language.
2. Something presented in a deliberately ambiguous or obscure manner.
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Noun1.fine printfine print - the part of a contract that contains reservations and qualifications that are often printed in small type; "don't sign a contract without reading the fine print"
contract - a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
reservation, qualification - a statement that limits or restricts some claim; "he recommended her without any reservations"
2.fine print - material printed in small type; "he needed his glasses in order to read the fine print"
print - the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication; "I want to see it in print"
Translations

fine print n the fine print → la letra pequeña or menuda
fine print n the fine print → ce qui est imprimé en tout petit
fine print n the fine print → das Kleingedruckte
fine print n the fine print → i caratteri minuti


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Requesting me then to exchange seats with him, that he might the better distinguish the fine print of the volume, he took my armchair at the window, and, opening the book, resumed his discourse very much in the same tone as before.
He had looked out all the pictures to which an asterisk was affixed in those formidable pages of fine print in his Badeker; his attention had been strained and his eyes dazzled, and he had sat down with an aesthetic headache.
 
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