Meaning

(uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
2. (countable) A language characteristic of a particular group.
3. (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
4. To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
5. Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”).

Example Sentences

Sometimes it pays to overcomplicate your simple messages. Make a list of ten-dollar words, scientific terms, and obscure niblets of jargon and find ways to use them. Your reputation and authority will soar.

That’s one of the biggest hurdles of managing a router and your network security in general, it’s a massive chore that is fraught with technical jargon, hurdles and screens saying ‘no’, ‘invalid’ or ‘not available’.

They [the Normans] abandoned their native speech, and adopted the French tongue, in which Latin was the predominant element. They speedily raised their new language to a dignity and importance which it had never before possessed. They found it a barbarous jargon; they fixed it in writing; and they employed it in legislation, in poetry, and in romance.

In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate.

Cut the jargon and get to your point.

Human ill-nature needs but some Homoiousian iota, or even the pretence of one; and will flow copiously through the eye of a needle: thus always must mortals go jargoning and fuming […].

Prussian Trenck, the poor subterranean Baron, jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.

[T]he noisy jay, / Jargoning like a foreigner at his food; […]

Word Forms

• jargons
• jargoning
• jargoned

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When Should You Use Jargon?

Use jargon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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