"modern" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In modern parlance, celibacy has come to be associated with the very specific practice of abstaining from sexuality.
- In modern parlance we would say he's considering the effectiveness of his deterrence measures.
- This usage often appears as "cold steel" in modern parlance.
- Alternative modern parlance for a gombeen man is someone "on the make".
- A large number of the words and phrases in modern electrical parlance owe their origin to him.
- My understanding of dole is that it means (in modern parlance) unemployment benefit.
- Between raising my children and developing my career, I don't have what anyone would consider a social life in modern parlance.
- It comes down, to use modern parlance, to the X-factor.
- In modern parlance, bureaucracy refers to the administrative system governing any large institution.
- The term still exists in modern military parlance to describe any short period of intense weapons fire.
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