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Meanings of jargon in English

Portuguese
jargão
Catalan
llengua vernacla
Spanish
patois

A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

      jargão
      Russian
      жаргонизм
      Portuguese
      jargão
      Spanish
      jerga
      Catalan
      jargon

      Specific language terminology.

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            жаргонизм

            A colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon.

                  Usage of jargon in English
                  1
                  It was clear and fairly free of jargon, which was also good.
                  The Irish Times
                  2
                  In the jargon, they were far from constituting an 'optimal currency area'.
                  The Irish Times
                  3
                  Jaguar Land Rover Before we continue, a few words about automotive jargon.
                  Wired
                  4
                  The police jargon for this kind of thing was an asymmetrical situation.
                  Warlord: an alex hawke novel
                  5
                  Except for special effect, we try to avoid colloquialisms, neologisms and jargon.
                  Reuters
                  6
                  With extreme prejudice? He used the jargon of clandestine operatives for effect.
                  Frozen Heat
                  7
                  The UN's draft climate change agreement is crucial, but full of jargon.
                  The Guardian
                  8
                  In any case, in jargon the word almost never refers to insects.
                  The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000
                  9
                  Insomnia, to use the jargon, was seen as a secondary, symptomatic condition.
                  The Guardian
                  10
                  He penetrated into the ghetto and learned the jargon of the Jews.
                  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
                  11
                  To my delight he understood and answered me in the same jargon.
                  At the Earth's Core
                  12
                  These journalists have disregarded the restraints and jargon of the Soviet period.
                  The new yorker
                  13
                  He only told me the truth about it, in his own jargon.
                  The Black Cat: A Play in Three Acts
                  14
                  Medical jargon is something some readers will perhaps be overly familiar with.
                  The Irish Times
                  15
                  You pick up the jargon of phreaking and hacking from the board.
                  The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
                  16
                  The jargon of the day penetrates to your very sports and games.
                  Hard Cash
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                  Translations for jargon
                  Jargon through the time
                  Jargon across language varieties
                  Ireland
                  Common
                  United Kingdom
                  Common
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                  Common