jargon

noun

jar·gon | \ˈjär-gən,

-ˌgän\

Definition of jargon

(Entry 1 of 2)

1 : the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group sports jargon

2 : obscure and often pretentious language marked by circumlocutions and long words an academic essay filled with jargon

3a : confused unintelligible language

b : a strange, outlandish, or barbarous language or dialect

c : a hybrid language or dialect simplified in vocabulary and grammar and used for communication between peoples of different speech

jargon

verb

jargoned; jargoning; jargons

Definition of jargon (Entry 2 of 2)

intransitive verb

1 : jargonize

2 : twitter, warble

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Examples of jargon in a Sentence

Noun

medical jargon that the layman cannot understand an academic essay filled with jargon

Verb

the birds who began jargoning to greet the dawn

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

When hundreds of millions of dollars are on the line, however, investors should expect transparency — not slippery & confusing language masquerading as industry jargon. — Polina Marinova, Fortune, "Term Sheet -- Friday, May 4," 4 May 2018 His speeches, laden with Marxist jargon and revolutionary slogans, rarely break new ground. — Mimi Whitefield And Nora Gámez Torres, miamiherald, "Who is Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba's handpicked president? | Miami Herald," 19 Apr. 2018 The periodic fights over whether literature professors deploy too much arcane theory or off-putting jargon aren’t really the issue, either. — Josh Macht, BostonGlobe.com, "Can tech save the humanities?," 6 Apr. 2018 That’s the message from the Federal Aviation Administration, which said as emphatically as skillfully fashioned legal jargon can describe Tuesday, that squeezing the nation’s expanding bottoms into shrinking airline seats is not its problem. — Ashley Halsey Iii, Washington Post, "FAA tells airline passengers ‘We’re a safety agency, not a creature comfort agency’," 3 July 2018 Like any patent application, this one was dense with legal jargon. — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, "Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain," 10 June 2018 This novel is filled with smart insights into aging parents, female friendships, tricky family dynamics and failing marriages, while too easily lapsing into women’s magazine jargon (enough with the Sandwich Generation). — Alex Witchel, New York Times, "Allison Pearson ‘Does It’ Again," 1 June 2018 Brown gives Ortiz a talk on race strategy, with detailed jargon that the uninitiated can only loosely translate as: Let another horse challenge Justify at the start to tire him out, then grind it out to the finish. — Kalyn Kahler, SI.com, "A Saturday at the Belmont With Gronk," 11 June 2018 In financial jargon, risk premia are being repriced. — Richard Barley, WSJ, "Global Markets: A New, More Difficult Stage," 4 June 2018

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb

That’s like the same thing that happened in 2008 when everybody was bedazzled by all these Wall Street jargon terms like collateralized debt obligations. — Recode Staff, Recode, "Full transcript: Corey Pein, author of ‘Live Work Work Work Die,’ on Recode Decode," 13 June 2018

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