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  2. Corporate jargon - Wikipedia

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    Corporate speak is associated with managers of large corporations, business management consultants, and occasionally government. Reference to such jargon is typically derogatory, implying the use of long, complicated, or obscure words; abbreviations; euphemisms; and acronyms.

  3. List of business terms - Wikipedia

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    Verb phrase Definition Action that Put something into practice [1] Baked in Something which has been "baked in" is implied to be impossible to remove. Alternatively, "baked in" can refer to a desirable, although non-essential, property of a product being incorporated for the user's convenience. Boil the ocean

  4. Jargon - Wikipedia

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    Jargon, also referred to as "technical language", is "the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group". [8] Most jargon is technical terminology (technical terms), involving terms of art [9] or industry terms, with particular meaning within a specific industry.

  5. Semantics - Wikipedia

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    Semantics studies meaning in language, which is limited to the meaning of linguistic expressions. It concerns how signs are interpreted and what information they contain. An example is the meaning of words provided in dictionary definitions by giving synonymous expressions or paraphrases, like defining the meaning of the term ram as adult male sheep. [22]

  6. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

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    It maintains a consistent meaning regardless of the context, [5] with the intended meaning of a phrase corresponding exactly to the meaning of its individual words. [6] On the other hand, figurative use of language (a later offshoot being the term figure of speech [citation needed]) is the use of words or phrases with a meaning that does make ...

  7. Language - Wikipedia

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    Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary.It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and signed forms, and may also be conveyed through writing.

  8. Business English - Wikipedia

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    Business English is a part of English for specific purposes and can be considered a specialism within English language learning and teaching or a variant of ...

  9. Business - Wikipedia

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    Business is the practice of making one's ... which has been called the "language of business", ... The term developed from the original meaning which referred ...