Jargonize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To speak or write using jargon. intransitive

    "He provokes, inspires, pontificates and jargonizes unto "hegemony" and "archaic parental imagos.""

  2. 2
    To convert into jargon; to express using jargon. transitive

    "But the committeemen were not to be diverted by the long-winded, jargonized explanations of the Nielsen modus operandi."

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"He provokes, inspires, pontificates and jargonizes unto "hegemony" and "archaic parental imagos.""

Etymology

From jargon + -ize.

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