jargon
43
7.2
- noun
- /ˈdʒɑrɡən/
:
jerga
- The reader familiar with library jargon will recognize here the important elements of information literacy.
- technical jargon
- use jargon
- terms and jargon
Now, that is, to use technical legal jargon, illegal.
- Now, that is, to use technical legal jargon, illegal.
- Or in clinical jargon, we'll say, 'cause social impairment.
- It's so clear, it's so absent of jargon or anything.
- I mean Washington is a world full of these letters and jargon and everything.
- Because I at least distinguish between terms of art and jargon.
- He brings up Nick Land, who is way, way further along the spectrum of reliance on jargon than Rosenstock is.
- That's the operationalization of this idea, this construct using scientific jargon.
- I'm sure you've seen plenty of this where people sink into jargon and acronyms and, and they make it.
- Actually, huge numbers of modernist poets gestured about and wrote about and lectured on what the jargon calls unalienated art.
Examples
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Very often we see the evidence couched in scientific jargon and that conveys very little to most of us.
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I spoke to you in medical jargon But I think it's better if we talk simple.
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State that love simply, without the jargon, and then let the rest of the world know.
Academic text (2011) -
Leave out the jargon, make me laugh, make me care.
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This is all fancy jargon for one simple thing.
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We know that science is full of jargon and acronyms.
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Clerking jobs are all the same wherever you go; only the jargon changes, never the job.
Fiction book (1992) -
Some jargon helps with the communication of difficult concepts between professional colleagues, but most jargon just confuses.
Academic text (2011) -
Now, editors like me will always, always, always say avoid jargon and insider lingo.
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The report was filled with technical jargon that made it hard for the general public to understand.
Synonyms
600
4.8
A set of special words people use in a particular job or field
58
5.6
Words people use in a subject or job
36
7.8
Words and phrases a group uses that people outside it do not understand
9
9.9
Confusing speech or writing full of technical words that most people cannot understand
3
7.2
A conversation about work that uses special words people in the same job understand
1
9.6
Confusing words from computers and high-tech areas that most people do not understand
1
9.8
Language that is hard to understand because it uses many difficult words or nonsense
1
9.9
A special way of speaking used by a group so outsiders cannot understand
1
9.9
Special words used by a group to hide meaning from others
1
9.9
Formal, complicated language used in official or government papers
1
9.3
A way doctors and nurses use words that most people find hard to understand
1
9.9
Language that uses many informal words people outside a group may not understand
A special set of words used by people in a particular job or field
Language used by computer experts that most people find hard to understand
Way doctors speak that is full of medical words and hard for patients to understand
Formal, hard to understand language that government officials use
Formal words and phrases used by teachers and schools that are hard for others to understand
Confusing education words that sound important but mean little
Complicated words used in universities that make ideas hard to understand
A confusing mix of short abbreviations and technical words
Special words and phrases used in social movements to talk about equality
Antonyms
Compounds
A simple language made from native languages, French, and English used for trade in the Pacific Northwest
- Jargon
Complicated words used in universities that make ideas hard to understand
- Literature
A simple mixed language people used to talk in the Pacific Northwest in the 1800s
- Jargon
Special words and phrases used in social movements to talk about equality
How Technical
43
7.2
- Specialized
58
5.6
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jargon comes from an old French word jargon that meant 'chatter' or 'bird song', so you can remember jargon as speech that sounds like noisy talk and is hard for people outside the group to understand.