(n.) Interchange of speech; dialogue; conversation; conference.
(n.) An intermediate act or decree before final decision.
(n.) Hence, intermediate argument or discussion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many observers bet strongly on the latter and have begun to use it as a measure of just what Putin thinks about his interlocuters.
Locution
Definition:
(n.) Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mas never uses the word "independence" and it does not appear in his party, Convergència i Unió's manifesto, which instead refers to "our own state", Mas's preferred locution.
(2) To achieve conceptual clarity in the theory of placebogenic phenomena, this paper offers a rigorous articulation of the placebo notion, a lucid new terminology that obviates the defects intrinsic to the traditional locutions employed in the placebo literature, and a substantial revamping of A. K. Shapiro's influential prior definition of 'placebo'.
(3) Those leaking against Flynn, Nunes said, using a favored Trump locution, “ want the swamp to remain ”.
(4) In spite of its ambiguity, the use of the locution natural drug is spreading in the lay media and efforts are made to introduce it in more scientific contexts.