parlance

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In RMS parlance, his response to Alexey sounds like a polite form of, "I'll think about that."Meh.

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a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for parlance.

noun

a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language

Example sentences

In RMS parlance, his response to Alexey sounds like a polite form of, "I'll think about that."Meh.

We have, in startup parlance, a high burn, and most of it cant be considered investment but is instead expense.

In common parlance, you are increasing the temperature of the water.

By using the code as as a corpus, we can see how differently legal language differs from day-to-day parlance.

The word "geek" actually comes from circus parlance, it means someone who does disgusting things like bite the heads off of chickens for the entertainment of the crowd.

Actually they can, and yes they are bleeding cash and yes they are 'upside down' in the parlance, but if they lower the offering price and still can't get it fully subscribed they are stuck.

I know that is not obvious being so close to the epicenter of it, but 90%+ of professional programmers work, in Silicon Valley parlance, boring companies doing boring things.

I found that the quip about how the document that they are sharing while having a conversation is not screensharing as we commonly understand it in modern parlance to be pretty illuminating.

"In modern parlance, bureaucracy refers to the administrative system governing any large institution.