1. (n.) A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.

2. (n.) A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.

3. (n.) See Letter.

adjectival phrase article back matter bill book boundary condition calendar catch chapter column companion bills amendment condition construction donnee dragnet clause enacting clause escalator clause escape clause escape hatch expression fascicle fine print folio front matter gathering given grounds headed group hold-up bill idiom idiotism installment joker kicker limiting condition livraison locution manner of speaking motion noun phrase number obligation omnibus bill page paragraph parameter part passage peculiar expression period phrasal idiom phrase prerequisite privileged question provision provisions proviso question requisite rider saving clause section sentence serial set phrase sheet signature sine qua non small print specification standard phrase stipulation string syntactic structure term terms text turn of expression turn of phrase ultimatum usage utterance verb complex verb phrase verbalism verse volume way of speaking whereas word-group