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' To shift fields: art movements, in particular, often identify themselves through the addition of a syllable to a word in common parlance.
There is rather a double standard, first the so-called American Standard that textbooks try to inculcate, the dignified parlance of discourse, and then the related but divergent American Wit, the standard of ingenuity, which trafficks freely in analogy, pun, and portmanteau.
Although the term value-subtracted has been used in specialized contexts for some years, it is acquiring traction in public parlance largely because of dislocations in the former Communist bloc.
He had, in today's parlance, paid his dues.
An entry in US commercial dictionary parlance means every headword (that is, main entry set flush left, often in larger boldface type); every inflected form; every run-on entry (the self-evident boldface words consisting of the headword plus a productive ending like - tion , - ly , - ness , etc.); list words (those beginning with a common prefix of transparent meaning like