| 单词 | trade jargon |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrade jargon trade jargon n. (a) the jargon used within a particular trade or industry; (b) a pidgin language used as a common medium of communication for trading purposes; cf. trade language n. (now chiefly historical). ΚΠ 1851 W. Hazlitt tr. ‘Talvi’ Hist. Colonization Amer. I. xv. 371 All the disorder of formalities, titles, and prolixities, had broken in like a stream which..no understanding could cope with, except that of a man initiated fully into the ‘trade-jargon’ [Ger. Gewerbs-Terminologie]. 1881 St Louis Globe-Democrat 17 July 16/6 They may not always understand each other when speaking their mother tongues, but they have the trade jargon of the fur country in common. 1999 Language 75 583 These trade jargons were unstable and were a sociolinguistic reflection of the trading relations that existed between the groups. 2006 K. Thompson No Nettles Required (2007) 69 Specialist nurseries will sell you young trees about a metre tall (‘whips’ in the trade jargon). < as lemmas |
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