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Example sentences for: parlance
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They are broadly of two kinds: those in which the wrong word is accentuated and those in which the pause is wrongly positioned (or perhaps, in technical parlance, examples of faulty tonicity and faulty tonality, respectively).
Take the verb cut, which in common ranch parlance has two meanings, the first as stated above being `castrate.
22 In postal parlance, editorial is defined as material that is not advertising.
In aviation parlance, to hold some action always means to stop what you are doing and thus to go around in a landing situation; but in ordinary English hold can also mean to continue what you are doing and thus to land in such a situation.
Hard currencies aren't pegged to metals any longer, but in casual political and macroeconomic parlance, soft-money people are those who take an optimistic and permissive attitude toward control of the money supply, and hard-money people are those who take a grouchy and restrictive one.
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