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phraseology

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[ UK /fɹe‍ɪsˈɒləd‍ʒi/ ]
[ US /ˌfɹeɪziˈɔɫɔdʒi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the manner in which something is expressed in words
    use concise military verbiage

How To Use phraseology In A Sentence

  • It must be entertaining to hear the peculiar phraseology and observe the humorous vulgarities of these _naiades_, if one could do so The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
  • This phraseology is grandiose, rotund and sonorous, but signifies a fatal weakness in Walcott's approach to both Brand and Philip.
  • My phraseology was perhaps too colloquial and informal - I was trying to pay them a compliment for getting the story.
  • The phraseology might have been a bit offside, though.
  • This question, divested of the phraseology calculated to represent me as struggling for an arbitrary personal prerogative, is either simply a question who shall decide, or an affirmation that nobody shall decide, what the public safety does require, in cases of Rebellion of Invasion. Balkinization
  • No one could soar into a more intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology ( Anthony Trollope ).
  • This combination of physical and mental conditions so amazingly favorable to the spread of the Voltairean ideas was a circumstance independent of the state of the surrounding atmosphere, and was what in the phraseology of prescientific times might well have been called providential. Voltaire
  • This phraseology cannot be very assuring to the Karzai government.
  • One of the advantages of being a manager with responsibility for appointing staff is that you get to see lots of other people's CVs and can steal good ideas for presentation and phraseology.
  • In this afternoon’s Queen Speech debate (quite how our esteemed representatives can spend two days debating seven minutes worth of platitudes is beyond me), the Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, described the Tories’ shambolic health policies as an ‘omnishambles’ - very ‘hip’ phraseology stolen from an Armando Ianucci penned Malcolm Tucker rant. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
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