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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field the promotional team for the new computer used a dialect full of acronyms that the press found difficult to follow Synonyms argot, cant, terminology, jargon, jive, language, lingo, patois, patter, shop, shoptalk, slang, vocabularyRelated Words colloquial, colloquialism, idiom, localism, parlance, pidgin, provincialism, regionalism, speech, vernacular, vernacularism; slanguage; bureaucratese, computerese, cyberspeak, educationese, governmentese, journalese, technobabble
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