Legal Definition and Related Resources of Expose

Meaning of Expose

A French word, sometimes applied to a vritten document containing the reasons or motives for doing a thing. The word occurs in diplomacy. To place in an unprotected situation. To exhibit. “Exposure for sale” implies an exhibition in a public place, not a private sale. 13 Wend. (N. Y.) 429.

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Synonyms of Expose

verb

advertise
air
bare
bring to light
cast out
coarguere
defame
denounce
denude
deprive of p rotection
descry
detect
detegere
dig up
disclose
discover
display
divest
divulge
endanger
evince
exhibit
exponere
feature
give away
hazard
hold up to public ridicule
hunt down
imperil
inform on
jeopardize
lay bare
lay open
lay open to harm
lay open to view
make liable
make visible
manifest
muckrake
open to view
present
publish
put in a conspicuous place
put in danger
put in peril
put in view
reveal
risk
shame
show
show off
smoke out
strip
strip of disguise
turn out
uncloak
unconceal
uncover
undrape
undress
unearth
unfold
unmask
unsheathe
unveil
unwrap
vent
Associated Concepts: expose to disease
expose to harm
expose to obloquy
expose to the elements

Concept of “Expose”

Traditional meaning of expose in the French law history (with some legal use in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in French) The statement of reasons or motive for doing a thing.

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Notes and References

Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Expose”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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