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▸ noun:  (uncountable) A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; thus:
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Unnecessary use of extra words to express an idea, such as a pleonastic phrase (sometimes driven by an attempt at emphatic clarity) or a wordy substitution (the latter driven by euphemistic intent, pedagogic intent, or sometimes loquaciousness alone).
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Necessary use of a phrase to circumvent either a vocabulary fault (of speaker or listener) or a lexical gap, either monolingually or in translation.
▸ noun:  (countable) An instance of such usage; a roundabout expression, whether an inadvisable one or a necessary one.

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