1 one of the sections of a legal document that says that sth must or must not be done （法律文件上的）条款

2 (grammar语法) a group of words that includes a subject and a verb. A clause is usually only part of a sentence 子句，分句，从句（语法术语，由主语、动词组成的一组词语，一般作为句子的构成部份）: The sentence, ‘After we had finished eating, we watched a film on the video,’ contains two clauses. ‘After we had finished eating, we watched a film on the video’这个句子包含两个子句。