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phraseology

/fɹeɪziˈɑləd͡ʒi/

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What does phraseology mean?

noun

  1. Study of set or fixed expressions.
  2. The style in which words and phrases are used in writing or speech.
  3. A group of specialized words and expressions used by a particular group.
More meanings (1)

noun

  1. A collection of phrases; a phrasebook.

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/fɹeɪziˈɑləd͡ʒi/

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It is unnecessary, even in this medical case, to go into details or to give her actual phraseology.
William Healy; Mary Tenney HealyPathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic PsychologyProject Gutenberg ebook #449
To use the modern phraseology, naturalistic studies are indispensable, but they are in the interests of humanistic and ideal ends.
John DeweyDemocracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of EducationProject Gutenberg ebook #852
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A dictionary of cowboy words, figures of speech, picturesque phraseology, slang, etc., with explanations of many factors peculiar to range life.
J. Frank (James Frank) DobieGuide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few ObservationsProject Gutenberg ebook #314
When Gnosticism declined in importance, and its theories faded out of recollection, its peculiar phraseology received of necessity a new interpretation.
John FiskeThe Unseen World, and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #1486
Thus it avoids a mysterious, unintelligible phraseology, and makes its progress in plain language, that is, with a clear and always visible chain of ideas.
Carl von ClausewitzOn WarTranslated by J. J. (James John) GrahamProject Gutenberg ebook #1946