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term of art

noun

  1. a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage.

    Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.



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This foreign emoluments clause is one of three different constitutional provisions restricting emoluments—a term of art that encompasses any gift, benefit, or thing of value—all of which reflect the Framers’ bone-deep terror of public corruption.

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The metastatic growth of the upper-middle-class house has led to a familiar term of art: the McMansion.

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This is not a casual judgment about information, but a term of art with a specific meaning in the intelligence community.

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But it’s hard to avoid a more fatalistic conclusion: We — and by that unacceptable term of art, I really do mean all of us — were offered a crucial opportunity, with Trump’s first election, to reckon with some very big questions about the past and the future.

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And then, in superstitious fear, they asked their own priests to sing a few chants, asking Nicholas for permission to steal him—to translate him, in the term of art used by relic hunters everywhere.

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