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    lo·cu·tion
    [lōˈkyo͞oSHən]
    noun
    locution (noun) · locutions (plural noun)
    1. a word or phrase, especially with regard to style or idiom.
      • a person's style of speech:
        "his impeccable locution"
    2. an utterance regarded in terms of its intrinsic meaning or reference, as distinct from its function or purpose in context. Compare with illocution, perlocution
      • language regarded in terms of locutionary rather than illocutionary or perlocutionary acts.
    Origin
    late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin locutio(n-), from loqui ‘speak’.
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    noun
    1. a word or phrase, especially with regard to style or idiom.
      wording
      diction
      phrasing
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      barbarisms
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      technospeak
      geekspeak
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      manner of writing/speaking
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      form/mode of expression
      choice of words
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