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Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing. [1] [2] It also often refers to the language exclusively used by the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.
In Brazil the term "woke", gained force during and after the 2022 Brazilian general election won by the leftist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with the Bolsonaristas – supporters of the former right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro – and parts of the Brazilian center-right accusing the left of "forcing the woke agenda in Brazil" with ...
List of initialisms, acronyms ("words made from parts of other words, pronounceable"), and other abbreviations used by the government and the military of the United States. Note that this list is intended to be specific to the United States government and military—other nations will have their own acronyms.
This list covers security clearance terms used in the United States of America. Within the U.S. government, security clearance levels serve as a mechanism to ascertain which individuals are authorized to access sensitive or classified information.
Abbreviation Term Notes A/A Air to air TACAN function A/C Aircraft [1] AC Altocumulus: Cloud type ACC Altocumulus castellanus: Cloud type ACC Area Control Centre A/D Aerodrome: A/F Autofeather: A/FD Airport/Facility Directory: A/P Autopilot: AAE Above aerodrome elevation [1]
(from the Italian Ballabile meaning "danceable") In ballet the term refers to a dance performed by the corps de ballet. The term Grand ballabile is used if nearly all participants (including principal characters) of a particular scene in a full-length work perform a large-scale dance. bar, or measure
Masonic abbreviations of technical terms or of official titles are very extensively used in Freemasonry. They serve to abbreviate long or commonly-referenced titles in the fraternity. These abbreviations were rarely employed in the earlier Masonic publications. [1] There are no abbreviations, for example, found in Anderson's Constitutions ...