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Alternative form of leetspeak. [(chiefly Internet slang) A form of chatspeak characterized most strongly by its alphanumeric substitutions.]
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(colloquial) The style of language used by adults.
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(informal) The jargon used in advertising.
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The jargon used by agents or an agency.
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The jargon used by airline companies.
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The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers.
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(often derogatory) The specialist vocabulary and language associated with art and artists, especially when seen as complicated or pretentious.
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(US, informal) The jargon associated with motor vehicles.
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Pretentious, incomprehensible, or overly technical language, especially legal or bureaucratic jargon.
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The industry jargon associated with Billboard, an American music and entertainment magazine.
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(derogatory) impenetrable jargon
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(informal) The jargon used in business.
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The style of language associated with Broadway theatre: either industry jargon or the slang spoken by characters in the plays.
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(Wikimedia jargon) A wiki user with the right to change user access levels.
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(informal, derogatory) A style of language, typically used by bureaucrats, that involves jargon or euphemism to the detriment of broader understanding.
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(informal) Synonym of bureaucratese
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(informal) The jargon used in business.
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(rare) Language that uses jargon, euphemism, vagueness, and other phrasal devices to obscure the actual or intended meaning of a statement; newspeak.
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The jargon used by politicians, lobbyists, and commentators, especially during a political campaign.
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(rare, chiefly fantasy) The language or dialect of a certain clan.
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The jargon used by climatologists and people talking about climate change.
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Alternative form of climate-speak [The jargon used by climatologists and people talking about climate change.]
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(informal) The jargon or pep talks employed by sports coaches.
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(informal) Synonym of computerspeak
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(informal, dated) The jargon associated with computers.
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(informal) The jargon associated with computer technology.
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Jargon or buzzwords used by consultants.
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Language that is trendy and cool, or aims to be.
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The jargon used in corporations and other bureaucracies.
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(informal, derogatory) The jargon used within business corporations.
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Synonym of corporatespeak
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The characteristic jargon and copy style of Cosmopolitan magazine.
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The argot spoken by criminals.
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The jargon of crossword puzzle answers, classically consisting of rare, archaic, or dialectal words.
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Technical jargon or pseudolanguage that seems incomprehensible.
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Of or relating to a curator.
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Alternative form of diplospeak [Diplomatic language; The careful use of euphemism and noncontroversial language to obscure points that might cause contention.]
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(colloquial) The jargon used by diplomats.
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(derogatory) The jargon used by diplomats.
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Diplomatic language; The careful use of euphemism and noncontroversial language to obscure points that might cause contention.
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(informal) The jargon used by medical doctors.
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The jargon used by doctors; medical language.
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Communicating (often contentious) political ideas in coded language, such that only a small group of voters understands them as they are meant to be understood.
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The language supposedly used by dogs.
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(informal) Excessively obscure economic jargon.
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The jargon used by economists.
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A form of language used for discussing environmental and ecological issues.
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Of or relating to an editor, editing or an editorial.
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Alternative spelling of edu-babble [(education, derogatory) Jargon on educational topics; writing or speech containing a large amount of education jargon.]
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The jargon used by educators.
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(informal) The jargon used by educators.
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The jargon or rhetoric of politicians, lobbyists, and commentators during an election campaign.
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political jargon associated with the European Union
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(derogatory) The bureaucratic jargon of federal government.
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(informal, derogatory) Impenetrable economic jargon used by the US Federal Reserve.
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Conversant with the concepts of food literacy.
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Alternative form of governmentese [(informal) The jargon spoken in government.]
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(informal) The jargon spoken in government.
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A form of language used for discussing environmental and ecological issues.
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The jargon used by a particular group.
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(US) The slang used by infantry soldiers.
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(informal) The jargon of ham radio enthusiasts.
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(Australian politics, colloquial, derogatory) The type of convoluted and prolix spoken diction of former Prime Minister Bob Hawke.
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(informal) The jargon associated with the film-making industry in Hollywood.
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(informal) The technical jargon used by IBM employees.
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Internalised talk or speech; talk associated with a particular group, company, or occupation; jargon.
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(informal) Obscure language; jargon.
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Alternative spelling of lawyerspeak [(informal) The abstruse jargon of lawyers.]
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(informal) The jargon used by lawyers.
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(informal) The abstruse jargon of lawyers.
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Alternative form of legalese [(informal, derogatory) Technical jargon common in the legal profession, the argot of lawyers.]
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(informal, derogatory) Technical jargon common in the legal profession, the argot of lawyers.
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(informal) Synonym of legalese
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(derogatory) Language used by political liberals; liberalese.
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(derogatory) Language used by political liberals; liberalese.
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The ability to read and write.
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The property of being literary, either being a work of literature or knowledgable of literature.
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A person who is able to read and write.
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The quality of being literatesque.
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(US) A form of language, practiced by the young, in which generalized modifiers (especially like and the form be like) are interspersed, often seemingly at random.
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(informal, derogatory) The business jargon used by managers.
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(informal) The jargon used in marketing.
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The jargon used by the mass media.
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The jargon used by the medical community.
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Of or relating to a messenger.
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A technique in metafiction whereby a character displays awareness of being part of a dramatic work.
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(informal) Military jargon.
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The jargon of the military.
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The ability to be literate in terms of text in media other than paper
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(informal) The jargon spoken in the navy.
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(fiction) The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc in the novel Nineteen Eighty-four (George Orwell, 1949). Designed to restrict the words, and thereby the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania.
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The typical language of officials or official documents; legalistic and pompous language.
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(informal) The legal jargon used in patents.
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Synonym of patentese (“legal jargon used in patents”)
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The jargon of pacifism and anti-war discourse.
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(derogatory) The jargon used by educationists.
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The jargon or formal language used by the police.
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(informal) Synonym of politicianese
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(informal) Synonym of politicianese
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Political jargon, language used by politicians.
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Political jargon; the obfuscatory or euphemistic language used by politicians.
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(informal) Synonym of politicianese
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Alternative spelling of politicese [Political jargon, language used by politicians.]
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(informal) Synonym of politicianese
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(informal) Synonym of politicianese
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(informal) Synonym of politicianese
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(informal, derogatory) Synonym of politricks
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(informal, derogatory) Synonym of politricks
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(slang, Australia, derogatory) Political spin; speech used by a politician that is equivocal or mendacious.
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Abbreviation of political science. [The systematic study of government and politics.]
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Characteristically professional language or jargon
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(derogatory) English-language jargon or dialect that does not reflect the way most people speak.
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To speak this kind of jargon.
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The jargon used by psychologists or psychiatrists.
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Synonym of rubber stamp committee
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(law) Abbreviation of science. [(countable) A particular discipline or branch of learning, especially one dealing with measurable or systematic principles rather than intuition or natural ability.]
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A controlled form of natural language based on English and designed to facilitate communication between ships whose captains speak different languages.
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Discussion of business in a social setting, especially using jargon.
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(uncountable) Controlled language originally developed for aerospace industry maintenance manuals
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The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to conceal one's meaning from outsiders; cant.
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The use of slang; language containing slang lexis.
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(law) Abbreviation of social. [A festive gathering to foster introductions.]
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The systems of control mechanisms to dominate these entities of the organization to achieve a defined goal.
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The jargon used by sociologists.
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The jargon used by sociologists.
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The jargon used by sociologists.
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language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
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(informal) The jargon of espionage.
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The style of language associated with sports reporting or coaching.
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The technical jargon used in documents that define formal standards.
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Exceptionally literate.
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(informal) Technical or technological jargon.
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(colloquial) The jargon used by therapists.
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The ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms and media.
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(informal) The idiolect or political discourse of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States.
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(computing, slang) The jargon used by vendors.
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The jargon of war and military operations.
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(very rare) A language used by whales.
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