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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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vocabulary court

/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ri kɔːt/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The hearing where five teams arrive certain that 'active user' is obvious and leave with six definitions.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. An informal review forum where conflicting definitions of a contested term are reconciled into one agreed entry.

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See also
  • business glossaryA glossary in which the term 'owner' is the only entry without one.
  • controlled vocabularyThe aspiration; the practice is mostly the uncontrolled kind, which is why this exists.
  • semantic driftThe slow process by which 'customer' comes to mean six things, none of them on file.