Usually means: Deliberately ambiguous or evasive language.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. doublespeak: Merriam-Webster
  2. doublespeak: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. doublespeak: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. doublespeak: Collins English Dictionary
  5. doublespeak: Vocabulary.com
  6. Doublespeak, doublespeak: Wordnik
  7. doublespeak: Wiktionary
  8. doublespeak: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. doublespeak: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. doublespeak: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. doublespeak: Dictionary.com
  12. Doublespeak: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. doublespeak: Rhymezone
  14. doublespeak: FreeDictionary.org
  15. doublespeak: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. doublespeak: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. doublespeak: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

(Note: See doublespeaker as well.)

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noun:  Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.

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