shorthand

Poitras takes viewers inside Hersh’s process: the notebooks crammed with barely decipherable shorthand, the Rolodexes packed with names and numbers, the long calls coaxing sources to talk.

Generally, it means excessive competition, but it has become a shorthand for a range of maladies, especially deflation and overcapacity.

Antifa, a shorthand term for "anti-fascist," is a nebulous movement of left-wing activists that experts say is more a political ideology than an organized group.

There is also a “public market equivalent,” a shorthand score that compares a fund’s returns to public market performance over the same period.

The phrase "by the end of the parliament" is shorthand for 2028, when the next general election is most likely to take place.