coded language

collocation in English

meaningsofcodedandlanguage

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coded
adjective
uk
/ˈkəʊd.ɪd/us
/ˈkoʊd.ɪd/
written or sent ...
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language
noun
uk
/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/us
/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/
a system of communication consisting of sounds, words, ...
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(Definition ofcodedandlanguagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcoded language

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Hiscodedlanguagecalling for the transition to a ' productive economy ' instead of a liberal market economy is unnecessarily coy.
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Each family can create its owncodedlanguage; nothing wrong with that except that no one outside the family can understand you.
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Largely because of the popularity of the city mysteries narrative, by the end of the 1840s 'gaslight' had becomecodedlanguagefor the urban world of artificiality, shadow, and danger.
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My fear is that all the talk of better regulation iscodedlanguagefor 'more of the same'.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
He just left the impression, which was not easy to break, that it wascodedlanguage.
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Calls for one capability or another are frequentlycodedlanguagein the ongoing budgeting battle.
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The minute is not much more than a poor plea in mitigation, and is written incodedlanguage.
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That sounds likecodedlanguagefor setting up another unit, another taskforce, and crowning another tsar or tsarina.
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There might be nothing wrong with that last quotation, but the problem is that we know that it iscodedlanguagefor other values and ideas.
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In contrast, a manuallycodedlanguage(or signed oral language) is a constructed sign system combining elements of a sign language and an oral language.
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The descriptions not only tell of the end times, but also describe both past and present events and their significance, often in heavilycodedlanguage.
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Everything is incodedlanguage.
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Most sign language interpreting seen on television in the 1970s and 1980s would have in fact been a transliteration of an oral language into a manuallycodedlanguage.
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