parlance
IPA: pˈɑrɫʌns
noun
- A certain way of speaking, of using words; especially that associated with a particular job or interest.
- Of a word, the quality of being lexicalized; especially as jargon or slang.
- (archaic, rare) Speech, discussion or debate.
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Examples of "parlance" in Sentences
- The term has gained common parlance in Britain.
- This lake is called Brana in the local parlance.
- Common parlance has used the term in this fashion.
- Now Tiger #1 is, in American parlance, a key comic.
- The use of this word in political parlance is to smear.
- The term belongs to the propaganda parlance of the 1940s and 1950s.
- The usage of the term in military parlance extended beyond the navy.
- In modern parlance the body is the hardware, the soul is the software.
- The parlance of the article attempts to avoid metaphysical connotations.
- The weapons term is certainly not the default in common English parlance.
- The media attention brought the South Bronx into common parlance nationwide.
- The term the legacy of slavery, while in popular parlance, is rarely ever quantified.
- "McCain's Mixed Signals on Foreign Policy" (Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times) In today's parlance, is McCain a "realist" or "neocon"?
- “… The use of the word ‘regime’ in American political parlance is unacceptable, and someone should tell the walrus [Limbaugh] to stop using it.”
- The Democrats are still true to their heritage of the party of local notables, or in American parlance of Bourbon Democrats and urban political machines.
- Narcissism, in psycho-therapeutic parlance, is a term used to indicate a superficial personality type with a hyper-inflated sense of self to compensate for a grievously wounded core.
- He's the guy, in American parlance, who cracks heads, makes it happen, says Joel Rubin, deputy director of the National Security Network, a Washington, D.C., foreign policy think tank.
- Erica - FYI - Opposition Research in campaign parlance is not research you conduct on your opponent, but rather research you do on yourself in an effort to glean what they will find out about you.
- The definition of design, as used in ID parlance is not associated with intelligence at all, it is simply saying something that is not describable by simple stochastic processes or regularity are designed:
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