jargon

They sought to accelerate the acculturation and assimilation of the many immigrants into one people, which, as the Massachusetts political and literary figure Fisher Ames pointed out, meant, “to use the modern jargon, nationalized.”

Like John le Carré, he creates his own jargon: safe houses are “coops,” spycraft is “artifice,” freelance agents are “units” and deep-cover moles are “termites.”

As someone deeply invested in a certain rock lineage — but who writes with a grasp of the emotional jargon of our time — are you glad to be living in an age of therapy-speak?

She had trouble understanding the jargon of investing and was confused by such terms as ETFs and index funds.

Belt-tightening is overused corporate jargon, but it is particularly apt at the moment.