locution
noun/ləˈkjuːʃn/
/ləˈkjuːʃn/
(specialist)- [uncountable] a style of speaking
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- [countable] a particular phrase, especially one used by a particular group of people
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin locutio(n-), from loqui ‘speak’.
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