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单词 catchword
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Definition of catchword in English:

catchword

nounˈkatʃwəːdˈkætʃˌwərd
  • 1A popular word or phrase encapsulating a particular concept.

    ‘motivation’ is a great catchword
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But these kinds of puritanical, knee-jerk catchwords are too easy, and they obscure a more complicated truth.
    • ‘Digital’ has morphed into a catchword for all that's hip and online, it seems.
    • ‘Accountability’ is a very popular catchword within health services fields.
    • He is keen to stress the astonishing flavour that can be captured in a preserving jar, together with a sense of time and place, of ‘seasonality’, which is the latest catchword to hijack the nation's kitchens.
    • ‘Culture’ has become a modern catchword for studies of identity, and has replaced terms like ‘ethnicity’ and ‘race.’
    • With ‘prevention better than cure’ becoming the catchword in the case of heart ailments as with other illnesses, tailor-made preventive heart check-ups have become the in-thing.
    • If contextualization was a catchword in theological circles of the 1970s, globalization became a new emphasis in the 1980s.
    • Military slang reflects views on rank, arm of service, race, gender, and hostility, and, through the use of acronyms and catchwords, marks soldiers from civilians and helps distinguish insiders from outsiders.
    • The catchword of the new era is market opening - lowering of barriers to trade, abolition of restraints on the movement of capital, the privatization of enterprises the government previously deigned to run.
    • Biodiversity has become a new catchword for farmers with its promise of healthier ecosystems.
    • The catchword was Black Power, but it was really black culture.
    • Instead the catchwords are competition and customers.
    • The word ‘Christian’ must be more than a catchword or cliché saying!
    • Globalisation has become the catchword of the age; but the debate about it has been sunk in confusion.
    • Terms like ‘professional’, ‘difference’, etc. are the catchwords.
    • Why is community development now a catchword among resource companies in Indonesia, and yet is so little understood by international corporate management?
    • That's the latest catchword being echoed among the builders' community in the State.
    • The catchword these days is ‘Waste management’.
    • ‘Be aggressive’, seems to be the catchword in the marketing and promotion of a film these days.
    • But for me there was by 1938 a matching awareness that neither jobs nor peace were won by slogans or by catchwords.
    Synonyms
    motto, watchword, slogan, byword, catchphrase, formula, refrain, maxim, axiom, mantra, shibboleth
    informal buzzword
  • 2A word printed or placed so as to attract attention.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The catchwords in the headnote say it all really.
    1. 2.1Printing historical The first word of a page given at the foot of the previous one.
 
 

Definition of catchword in US English:

catchword

nounˈkætʃˌwərdˈkaCHˌwərd
  • 1A briefly popular or fashionable word or phrase used to encapsulate a particular concept.

    “motivation” is a great catchword
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is keen to stress the astonishing flavour that can be captured in a preserving jar, together with a sense of time and place, of ‘seasonality’, which is the latest catchword to hijack the nation's kitchens.
    • Terms like ‘professional’, ‘difference’, etc. are the catchwords.
    • Military slang reflects views on rank, arm of service, race, gender, and hostility, and, through the use of acronyms and catchwords, marks soldiers from civilians and helps distinguish insiders from outsiders.
    • The catchword these days is ‘Waste management’.
    • If contextualization was a catchword in theological circles of the 1970s, globalization became a new emphasis in the 1980s.
    • ‘Culture’ has become a modern catchword for studies of identity, and has replaced terms like ‘ethnicity’ and ‘race.’
    • The catchword was Black Power, but it was really black culture.
    • The catchword of the new era is market opening - lowering of barriers to trade, abolition of restraints on the movement of capital, the privatization of enterprises the government previously deigned to run.
    • Instead the catchwords are competition and customers.
    • ‘Be aggressive’, seems to be the catchword in the marketing and promotion of a film these days.
    • But these kinds of puritanical, knee-jerk catchwords are too easy, and they obscure a more complicated truth.
    • ‘Accountability’ is a very popular catchword within health services fields.
    • Why is community development now a catchword among resource companies in Indonesia, and yet is so little understood by international corporate management?
    • But for me there was by 1938 a matching awareness that neither jobs nor peace were won by slogans or by catchwords.
    • Biodiversity has become a new catchword for farmers with its promise of healthier ecosystems.
    • ‘Digital’ has morphed into a catchword for all that's hip and online, it seems.
    • Globalisation has become the catchword of the age; but the debate about it has been sunk in confusion.
    • With ‘prevention better than cure’ becoming the catchword in the case of heart ailments as with other illnesses, tailor-made preventive heart check-ups have become the in-thing.
    • The word ‘Christian’ must be more than a catchword or cliché saying!
    • That's the latest catchword being echoed among the builders' community in the State.
    Synonyms
    motto, watchword, slogan, byword, catchphrase, formula, refrain, maxim, axiom, mantra, shibboleth
  • 2A word printed or placed so as to attract attention.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The catchwords in the headnote say it all really.
    1. 2.1Printing historical The first word of a page given at the foot of the previous one.
 
 
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