noun
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A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
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Language characteristic of a particular group.
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Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
verb
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To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
Examples of jargon in a Sentence
We also believe in not using marketing jargon or spiel.
First spend 20 minutes talking loudly to him in incomprehensible jargon.
Often people do not make a will because they are confused by the lengthy legal jargon.
Click on the links below to decipher the jargon you are likely to come across when you take out a mortgage.
To a reader not acquainted with the peculiar nature of the man, which led him to regard what commended itself to him as therefore objectively true, they must be, moreover, entirely unintelligible and, from their peculiar, pietistic tone and scriptural jargon, probably offensive.
It either falls into jargon or it becomes really insincere.
Further research of the domain name handbook located a glossary of common terms which will explain any domain name jargon or technical terms.
At first he tried law, but was unable to give his mind to a study which appeared to him to be merely a barren waste of technical jargon.
Compared with the barbarous macaronic jargon of the contemporary official language it shines forth as a masterpiece of pure, pithy and original Danish.
These revelations, delivered in Latin, German or a mixed jargon of both languages, were turned into simple Latin by Elizabeth's brother Egbert, from whose words it would seem that in 1156 an old Roman burialground had lately been laid open near Cologne.
At least, it is one of very few places which don't hit you about the head and spout religious jargon.
On top of this, he is a good storyteller and a clear writer who avoids the pitfalls of pretentious art-world jargon.
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There is an entire subculture of jargon and symbolism that provides me with no point of reference.
Make succinct, salient points, avoiding jargon and unnecessarily complex information.
Do n't worry about getting tangled up in all the jargon - try our Glossary.
Okay, now it's time for a little jargon.
Specialty dictionaries deal with jargon of the medical profession, business, industry or science and are helpful in determining working definitions.
Nolo Press offers a range of legal products for everyday people, including books that put legal jargon into language we can all understand.
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It seems like policy documentation is typically loaded with complicated jargon that only an insurance expert could understand.
In France it was necessary for a Rabelais to hide his free-thinking under a disguise of revolting and unintelligible jargon.
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Readers of this journal may have ceased to notice unnecessary political jargon, flights of academic obscurantism and lazy drafting.
The intuitive new wizard removes the jargon and unfamiliar terms from selecting different configurations to produce PDF optimized for different uses.
It features computer jargon and technology, but St. Nick and his reindeer are still the stars of the poem.
There are of course other good, reliable sites that interpret the legal jargon of copyright law for freelance writers.
Technical jargon is fine in limited amounts, but if you overuse jargon when communicating something to, perhaps, someone in marketing, you probably won't succeed.
But these words are mere jargon, not belonging to any known or possible Old English dialect.
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It is possible for linguists, like anyone else, to use special lexis unnecessarily, or to descend into a kind of jargon.
Express concepts in the simplest terms and define technical terms and jargon, but do not oversimplify.
Plato seemed puerile, whimsical, full of unintelligible jargon.
Write clearly and concisely and avoid jargon or obscure terminology.
True it is that there were not wanting other men in these islands whose common sense refused to accept the metaphorical doctrine and the mystical jargon of the Quinarians, but so strenuously and persistently had the Laster asserted their infallibility, and so vigorously had they assailed any who ventured to doubt it, that most peaceable ornithologists found it best to bend to the furious blast, and in some sort to acquiesce at least in the phraseology of the self-styled interpreters of Creative Will.
The latter is no separate dialect at all, but a mere brogue or jargon, the medium of intercourse between illiterate natives and Europeans too indolent to apply themselves to the acquisition of the language of the people; its vocabulary is made up of Malay words, with a conventional admixture of words from other languages; and it varies, not only in different localities, but also in proportion to the individual speaker's acquaintance with Malay proper.
Avoid long rambling sentences, jargon or unexplained acronyms.
He does n't use culinary jargon nor time-consuming processes.
Like much technology, the marketing of digital cameras is surrounded by a great deal of jargon and details that only serve to confuse us consumers.
We have sought to avoid archaism, jargon, and all that is either stilted or slipshod.
It is difficult to compare the content management products available because of the widespread use of jargon, buzzwords, and marketing babble.
The fraternity possessed also a jargon of their own (Ramasi), as well as certain signs by which its members recognized each other in the remotest parts of India.
In the form germania it has acquired the significance of "thieves' Latin" or "thieves' cant," and is applied to any jargon supposed to be understood only by the initiated.
Thus, in the English " Backslang," which is nothing more than ordinary English deliberately inverted, in the similar Arabic jargon used among school children in Syria and in the Spanish thieves' dialect, the principles of inversion and substitution play the chief part.
These changes help shatter the myth that legal jargon cannot be replaced with plain English without sacrificing legal meaning.
Well, here are some basics on the overall room design without getting too caught up in the technical jargon of acoustics and how sound waves travel.
If you can communicate in these basic terms, you don't have to worry about all the wine-related jargon.
Many people call this jargon, particularly if they do not understand it.
Regardless, you must know a lot of professional terminology and jargon to write for these publications.