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To the Europeans it came as a shock: their interpretation of his jargon was that the Bush administration is increasingly tempted to junk the United States' long-standing support for European integration and to move instead towards a policy of "divide and rule".If that is so, it would mark an historic shift.
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Buzzwords or jargon are catchwords that are trendy to say but that don't really mean anything.
Hidden within a long document full of technical jargon are policies that could, some say, spell the end of council housing altogether.
Hidden within a long document full of technical jargon are policies that could, some say, spell the end of public housing altogether.
Marketing jargon is just that—jargon.
The jargon was so prevalent that even the actors noticed.
The legal jargon was so convoluted that the clerk got lost several times.
The lack of jargon is one thing that is instantly noticeable on Fox Business — often for the good.
I realize that jargon is the very stuff that you work with and to the extent that you need your topic-specific jargon to make a point, then you should use it.
But jargon is still jargon, and that means it's a word that no self-respecting journalist should use.* Update: our reader Q. Pheevr provides the 1923 reference from the OED.(Photo from Wikimedia Commons).
All these clichés that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows — the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.
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