jargon
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Because we are creating synthetic stock—trader jargon for using options to mimic actual shares—let’s use expirations of six months and longer to simulate equity ownership.
From Barron's • Jun. 24, 2026
They aren’t called select-service hotels in industry jargon for nothing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026
The fundamental economic proposition is that prices should reflect the additional cost of supplying the service, or “marginal cost” in the economic jargon.
From Salon • Jun. 14, 2026
I wish the show’s wall text and labels weren’t so overloaded with jargon, verbs like navigating, negotiating, interrogating, decentering, decontextualizing, disrupting and destabilizing.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
A surprising amount of jargon can simply be banished and no one will be the worse for it.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing jargon
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