locution
- n a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations
- That's not the problem Romney's strange locution at the South Carolina Republican Debate, "Double Guantanamo," sounds like an order at a Cuban coffee bar, not a policy proposal .
- It's so difficult to reach a real person via an 800 number that we had to invent a heretofore unnecessary locution real person to describe the entity we are trying to reach.
- They, as Benjamin put it, "interchang'd some promises"an 18th century locution for engagementa year later as he set off for England to buy printing equipment.