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jargon

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Google’s goal is to help searchers understand jargon or technical terms they might not fully understand, by giving them this additional context without having to leave the page.

There is complex or technical jargon not everyone understands.

From Fortune

The “Seventh Sanctum,” some kind of other god that’s part woman, part machine, talks about how you need to “upgrade your gear,” and doesn’t even bother with the pleasantries of high fantasy jargon.

Climbing is a complicated sport, full of nuances and its own jargon.

People also do this in an effort to portray their highly esteemed intellect—this is when heavy jargon and polysyllabic alternatives to concise declarative expressions appear.

This is known as close air support, or CAS, in military jargon.

As fluent in drug trade jargon as Martian, Future peppers his lyrics with interstellar imagery befitting of his far out vocals.

Baffled by the jargon-heavy consumer information manual, I chatted with Cheryl Luptowski from the NSF consumer affairs office.

Above all, she felt, there was a more pressing need for it than ever before, with jargon steadily taking over the world.

As his highly technical and jargon-laden presentation rambled on, Obama was beginning to lose patience.

We owe it neither to the Syriac tongue nor to the Hebrew, a jargon of the Syriac, in which adultery is called niuph.

I'm quite out of the hunt here, however, for I can't pretend to understand the jargon of the thing.

Madame Probasco immediately transferred the glove to her forehead, and the jargon increased in rapidity.

Why introduce an unintelligible jargon, when we may be understood by pronouncing a simple name?

They are a people within a people, differing in dress as well as in language, which is a jargon of German-Hebrew.

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On this page you'll find 74 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to jargon, such as: argot, idiom, lingo, parlance, patois, and slang.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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