militaryspeak
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- The jargon of the military.
- 1997, Richard Keeble, Secret State, Silent Press: New Militarism, the Gulf and the Modern Image of Warfare, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 150:
- The military had been reticent over casualty figures (defined in militaryspeak as 'collateral damage') during the slaughters of new militarist adventures in Grenada and Panama.