单词	-speak
释义	-speak-speak /spiːk/ suffix [in nouns] Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorthe language used by a particular group of people► language the kind of words used by people in a particular job or activity: legal/medical/business etc language: · Books about physics are usually written in highly technical language.· People often find the medical language used by doctors confusing.the language of something: · a fascinating article about the language of baseball ► terminology the special words that people working in science, medicine, the law etc use to describe things: · It is important that lawyers use the correct terminology when they prepare contracts.scientific/linguistic/computer etc terminology: · It was an interesting programme, which gave the facts without using too much scientific terminology. ► jargon words used by people who do a particular job or who are interested in a particular subject, which are difficult for ordinary people to understand: · When you first learn about computers, there is a whole lot of jargon to understand.management/legal/medical/computer jargon: · I hate all this management jargon about 'upskilling' and 'downsizing'. ► slang informal words that are used by specific groups of people, for example soldiers or prisoners: army/soldiers'/prison etc slang: · 'Doolally', meaning 'crazy', is 19th century soldiers' slang, and comes from the name of an Indian town. ► in layman's terms not using special, technical words that are hard to understand: · I want a book that will explain to me in layman's terms how my computer works. ► -speak : management/boardroom/PR etc -speak a type of language and the words used by managers etc - use this especially to talk about a way of speaking that you think is silly or unnecessarily different from normal language: · "What on earth does he mean, 'window'?" "Oh, that's management-speak for 'opportunity'."· Her email was so full of corporate-speak, you hardly realized that what she was saying was that we were all fired. WORD SETS► Languages accented, adjectiveAfrikaans, nounAnglo-Saxon, nounArabic, nounBengali, nounbilingual, adjectiveCantonese, nounChinese, nounconversant, adjectivecreole, nounDanish, noundialect, noundictation, noundirect method, noundub, verbDutch, nounEnglish, nounEsperanto, nounFarsi, nounFlemish, nounfluent, adjectiveFrancophone, adjectiveFranglais, nounFrench, adjectiveGaelic, nounGerman, nounGermanic, adjectiveGreek, nounHebraic, adjectiveHebrew, nounHindi, nounIndo-European, adjectiveItalian, nounItalo-, prefixJapanese, nounLatin, nounLatin, adjectivelinguist, nounlinguistics, nounMandarin, nounMaori, nounmodern language, nounmonolingual, adjectivemother tongue, nounmultilingual, adjectivenative speaker, nounoral, nounpatois, nounPersian, nounPolish, adjectivePortuguese, nounRomance language, nounRomany, nounRussian, nounSanskrit, nounsecond language, nounSemitic, adjectivesign, nounsign, verbsign language, nounSinhalese, nounSpanish, nounspeak, verb-speak, suffixspeaker, nounSwedish, nountransliterate, verbTurkish, nounUrdu, nounusage, nounvernacular, nounvocabulary, nounWelsh, noun the special language or difficult words that are used in a particular business or activity:  computerspeak
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