Meaning & use
Abovementioned
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Referred to or named earlier in the same document or text.
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The abovementioned terms apply to all parties signing this contract.
Please submit the abovementioned documents to the office by Friday.
A note on using this word
Abovementioned is a compound of 'above' and 'mentioned,' commonly written as one word, two words, or hyphenated ('above-mentioned'), and is especially common in legal and business writing.
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