parlance

Example Sentences

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The joint venture is what is known in accounting parlance as a variable interest entity, or VIE for short.

From The Wall Street Journal

In intelligence parlance, an “illegal” agent is someone who works without official cover, such as a diplomat at an embassy.

From Washington Times

In modern pop parlance, album rollouts are often described as eras, but Swift’s career hasn’t always been that cleanly delineated.

From New York Times

From our earthly perspective, they embrace — or in astronomy parlance, conjunct — on March 2, according to the U.S.

From Washington Post

But such scrutiny would come later, after unusually large amounts of explosives were placed into the containment vessel to be, as they say in bomb squad parlance, “rendered safe.”

From Los Angeles Times