Jargonize

Alternative forms

• jargonise

Origin

jargon + -ize

Full definition of jargonize

Verb

1. (intransitive) To speak or write using jargon.
• 1982 Jan. 14, John Leonard (critic), "Books of the Times" (book review of The Age of Desire by ), New York Times (retrieved 29 Nov 2012)He provokes, inspires, pontificates and jargonizes unto "hegemony" and "archaic parental imagos."
• 2008 August 25, David Hare (playwright), How the BBC killed the TV play," Time Online'' (UK):Contemporary BBC executives are far too busy jargonising to each other about delivery platforms and multichoice environments.
2. (transitive) To convert into jargon; to express using jargon.
• 1963 April 12, "Television: Selling Confusion," Time:But the committeemen were not to be diverted by the long-winded, jargonized explanations of the Nielsen modus operandi.
• 1978 March 21, Karen Ogden, "+jargonizing+|+jargonizes&hl=en Jargon, gobbelydegook, and other mumbo jumbo," The Star-Phoenix (Canada) (retrieved 29 Nov 2012)You can jargonize many words by adding "ize" to the end of them.

Derived terms

• jargonization