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Meaning of jargony | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

Typified by jargon; difficult to understand.

informal

Examples

“I studied parts of plants and bones so that I could accurately describe in the jargoniest of jargon every single species-specific part from petiole to scapula, from tibia to sepal.”
“He [Bill Hunt Gross] identified market inefficiencies around which he was able to structure trades that, over decades, wrung out extra basis points. He helpfully described these strategies himself in a 2005 paper and in his keynote speech at the 2014 Morningstar conference. “Structural alpha,” he called it, in the jargoniest jargon. And more directly: “the keys to the kingdom.””

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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