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名詞

autospeak (uncountable)

1. (informal) Thoughtless, automatic speech.
   • 1998, Michael Strain, Policy, leadership and professional knowledge in education

     If management is not quite as routinised as teaching, it still involves quite a lot of autospeak when what people say follows familiar pathways.

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auto +‎ -speak

名詞

autospeak (uncountable)

1. (US, informal) The jargon associated with motor vehicles.
   • 2007, Nury Vittachi, The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics, page 199:

     Honk, which was autospeak for `Get out of my way'.

   • 2007 June 24, Nick Kurczewski, “A Minivan That Is Actually Mini”, in New York Times^[1]:

     WHAT you call the Kia Rondo depends on how far you bend to the fickle winds of autospeak.