Meaning & use
parlance
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A particular way of speaking or using words, especially specific to a certain group or profession.
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In legal parlance, the term "consideration" has a very specific meaning.
What programmers call a "bug," in everyday parlance, is just a mistake.
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Almost always used in the phrase "in [X] parlance," to flag that a word is being used in its specialized, field-specific sense.
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