Sentence examples for plain parlance from inspiring English sources
In plain parlance, and in the context of Northern Ireland politics, what it actually translates as is that the government has accepted that the UVF's cessation of violence is fully intact and permanent.
The NYSE's weakened competitive position left the Big Board no other choice but to find in Wall Street parlance "a strategic partner," which in plain English means it needed to sell itself.
Document development steps included preparing an evidence-based DA in standard medical parlance, iteratively translating it to emphasize shared decision making and plain language in three formats (booklet, Internet, and audio-tape).
This time, the special episodes — called a "planted spinoff" in television parlance, because it is a way to test a new show idea in plain sight — will revolve around a New Orleans office of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, or NCIS.
There are about 20,000 oil and gas wells across Weld County, and about 1,900 of them had to be closed off — "shut in" in industry parlance — as the floodwaters coursed down from the mountains and spread out across the plains, inundating entire communities.
In their parlance: freedom.
In taxonomic parlance, V.
In their parlance, they "own the customer".
"In the parlance of the counterculture, I was supposed to live hard, die young and leave a beautiful corpse, as so many men of my time actually did — men smarter, more talented, better looking and just plain better than me".
In modern parlance, this equates to "Talk.
