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autospeak

autospeak noun: thoughtless, automatic speech.

Noun (1)

autospeak (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Thoughtless, automatic speech.
    • If management is not quite as routinised as teaching, it still involves quite a lot of autospeak when what people say follows familiar pathways.1998, Michael Strain, Policy, leadership and professional knowledge in education

Noun (2)

autospeak (uncountable)

  1. (US, informal) The jargon associated with motor vehicles.
    • Honk, which was autospeak for `Get out of my way'.2007, Nury Vittachi, The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics, page 199
    • WHAT you call the Kia Rondo depends on how far you bend to the fickle winds of autospeak.2007 June 24, Nick Kurczewski, “A Minivan That Is Actually Mini”, in New York Times

Origin of autospeak

From auto- + speak.

From auto + -speak.

Questions about autospeak

What does autospeak mean?
Autospeak means thoughtless, automatic speech.
What part of speech is autospeak?
Autospeak is a noun.

Words near autospeak in the dictionary

  1. autosome
  2. autosomes
  3. autosomic
  4. autosoteric
  5. autosoterism
  6. autospeak
  7. autospecific
  8. autospectra
  9. autospectral
  10. autospectrum
  11. autosperm

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