What does plain language mean?

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plain lan·guage

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  1. Plain language

    Plain language is writing designed to ensure the reader understands as quickly, easily, and completely as possible. Plain language strives to be easy to read, understand, and use. It avoids verbose, convoluted language and jargon. In many countries, laws mandate that public agencies use plain language to increase access to programs and services. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities includes plain language as one of the "modes, means and formats of communication".

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of plain language in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of plain language in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of plain language in a Sentence

  1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

    Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

  2. William Osler:

    There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

  3. One AFRICOM official:

    They( China) have upped their game, in plain language, and ultimately they are offering things that our partners want, that our partners need, in places, we have concerns we are being out-competed.

  4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

    Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

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