Sentence examples for trade lingo from inspiring English sources

Arundhati Roy won the 1997 Booker Prize and, in book trade lingo, her novel 'earned out'.

Robbins loved the vivid trade lingo in "Whiz Mob," and he continues to pepper his conversation with such terms as "pit" (inside jacket pocket) and "prat" (side pant pocket), "skinning the poke" (removing the cash from a stolen wallet and wiping it off before tossing it) and "kissing the dog" (the mistake of letting a victim see your face).

Wines like these, however, are worlds away from what is in the average American wine shop, usually a forlorn bottle or two of low-quality Madeira -- granel, in the trade lingo -- produced from underachieving grapes and subjected to a hasty cooking process that attempts to mimic the slowly oxidized aspects of a proper Madeira.

Only sites with environmental contamination — "brownfields" in trade lingo – remained cheap.

Conventional wisdom was that booking travel could mainly be handled online, and giant online travel agencies, or OTAs in trade lingo, annually spend over $3 billion in marketing and advertising trying to persuade consumers to plan their own trips.

In trading lingo, "Delta One" refers to a perfectly hedged position, in which any profits or losses are exactly offset — if a derivative loses a dollar, the corresponding investment will gain a dollar).

The ship's motley mix of races, trades and lingos enrich the texture of a well-researched romp.

In the lingo of the trade, Jed had no hook, unless they could parlay his theatrical talent.

They do this based not on the nature of the asset or liability, but on the identity of the institution on the other side of the trade — the counterparty, in market lingo.

Since 1923, when Dr. Daniel Starch first began analyzing print advertisements ("starching" them, in the lingo of the trade), the company has promulgated rules and offered advice to those in the advertising world about what works -- and what does not.

I'm sure that you've heard about the three bare-bones "staging outposts" or, in the lingo of the trade, "cooperative security locations" that the U.S. Marines have established in Senegal, Ghana, and Gabon.