Sentence examples for jargon reduction from inspiring English sources

It can be summed up by this forbiddingly opaque bit of wine jargon: reduction.

It is easy to criticize business jargon ("Initiating Mission-Critical Jargon Reduction," Week in Review, Aug. 3).

Bravo for "Initiating Mission-Critical Jargon Reduction," by Geoffrey Nunberg (Week in Review, Aug. 3): As a crisis communications specialist, I particularly appreciate the observation that jargon allows companies to distance themselves from moral and emotional concerns by avoiding the more personal implications of everyday words.

Most of its missions speak the jargon of development: poverty reduction, aggregate growth and structural adjustments.

So the second idea for saving forests lies in changing economic incentives by paying people not to chop down trees an idea known in the ghastly jargon of climate-change diplomacy as "reduction of emissions from deforestation and degradation" (REDD).

To take one of the less testing examples, the non-farm draft has a formula for reductions in maximum (or "bound", in the jargon) tariffs on non-farm goods.

After eliminating items considered ambiguous, complicated to read, double-barrelled, and also those with jargon terms, too long or negatively worded, a first item reduction resulted in 142 items drafted in question form.

Both sides are demanding mutually assured reductions of emissions that are, in the current jargon, "measurable, verifiable and reportable".

Health plan executives and financial analysts were happy that the relatively minor reductions were "not material to earnings," to use Wall Street jargon.

Only further wage and price reductions in the peripheral states – more "internal devaluation", to use the economic jargon – can deliver a sustainable recovery.

Awkward jargon.