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Definition

a special vocabulary or manner of speaking that is used by members of a group

Much more rarely (and more archaically), parlance can be used as a synonym for conversation as in: "Without further parlance, they began their journey."

In Pentagon parlance, it provides "full-spectrum dominance".

In Hollywood parlance, "The Box" was over $100 million.
It was a case, in the parlance of thieves and police, of "rail-roading."
Jack London -- White Fang
In Jamaican parlance, a store is not a store, it is a "Chinee-shop."
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
From someone else, for instance Janice, the contact would simply be casual, friendly, just a kind of parlance, formless, easy talk.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, a third lower floor.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
In engineering parlance, it embodied little "dead load," the static weight of immobile masses of brick and steel.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
The Doctor again assumed his air of resolution, and, without further parlance, proceeded to do as desired.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
He had been drugged repeatedly, taken up to the moon, in the parlance of those who usually administered such narcotics.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
In the parlance of economics, Julien has said to Pari that if she cut off the supply of attention, perhaps the demands for it would cease as well.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
"She is not what in common parlance is called a lady," said Angel, unflinchingly, "for she is a cottager's daughter, as I am proud to say.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The more unusual or bizarre the person was, the more "interesting" they would become in Walter's parlance.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
In the parlance of economists, such a case is known as an information asymmetry.
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics
It was a two-day show with a parade the first morning, a barbecue at noon, and the first round—go-round, in rodeo parlance—in all events that afternoon.
Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die
* In vulgar parlance the condiments of a repast are called by the American "a relish," substituting the thing for its effect.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
To Franklin fell the unpleasant duty of breaking the news to Ver-gennes, and fortunately so, as in the parlance of diplomacy, it was a "delicate" moment.
David McCullough -- John Adams
The Santa Anita Handicap became, in the parlance of racetrackers, the hundred-grander, or "hunnert-grander."
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
In Army parlance it was known as single-unit triangulation, and it was highly effective, though slow.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
But Marse Robert—"master" as rendered in southern parlance—has proven himself a formidable opponent time and again.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
In simpler parlance, his body had grown weary of the war and manifested its protest with a general weakness of the limbs and a constant fever.
James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons

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