Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To translate into jargon.
- intransitive verb To talk or write jargon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To speak a jargon; utter uncouth and unintelligible sounds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To speak or write using
jargon . - verb transitive To
convert into jargon; toexpress using jargon.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'd say: more generally widespread among people. who jargonize about computing so often in their daily work that they often forget that not everybody, even in a country where people are as clever about English as German/Austrian/Swiss folks are (we all know that 100% population in these places speak a very perfect English) do understand what "downgrade" means.
Planet Debian 2010
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I'd say: more generally widespread among people. who jargonize about computing so often in their daily work that they often forget that not everybody, even in a country where people are as clever about English as German/Austrian/Swiss folks are (we all know that 100% population in these places speak a very perfect English) do understand what "downgrade" means.
Planet Debian 2010
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