| active dying | death throes |
| administered territories | occupied territories |
| administrative detention | incarceration without charges or trial |
| agent orange | dioxin |
| associated free state | colony |
| assisted feeding | forced feeding |
| asymmetric warfare | guerilla warfare |
| at-risk youth | juvenile delinquent |
| attempt to secure an unelected term of office |
insurrection |
| authoritarian regime | dictatorship |
| background talent | extra |
| ballot harvesting | ballot collection by a third party |
| bathroom tissue | toilet paper |
| between jobs or in transition |
unemployed |
| blended family or non-traditional family |
broken family |
| bridge loan | bailout |
| business community | ownership class |
| business leader | capitalist or business owner |
| career education or technical education |
vocational education |
| carotid control hold or carotid restraint |
choke hold |
| character analysis | gossip |
| civil disturbance | riot |
| clear desk policy | shredding of sensitive documents |
| coal seam gas mining or hydraulic fracturing |
fracking |
| community project funding | earmark or pork-barrel project |
| companion animal | pet |
| competitive research | dumpster diving for personal information |
| concertina wire | razor wire |
| confidential human source | police informant |
| confirmed bachelor | gay man |
| conscious uncoupling | breaking up |
| constitutional sheriff | lawless white supremacist officer of the law |
| construction project expressionism | graffiti |
| contour crafting | 3-d printing |
| contour mining or high wall mining |
mountaintop removal |
| corrugated packaging or corrugate |
cardboard |
| crisis healthcare worker | medical or nursing student |
| crisis level of care | rationing of healthcare |
| cross-country skiing | uphill skiing |
| curbside community | homeless encampment or tent city |
| deep state | professional civil servants |
| defense forces | army |
| defensive medicine | doctor or hospital self-interest |
| dental appliances | false teeth |
| detention center | jail |
| dining terrace | food court |
| direct mail | junk mail |
| door host | bouncer |
| dynamically address | kill |
| e-mail marketing | spam |
| eco-village or intentional community |
commune |
| the economy | the oil economy |
| election meddling | cyberwarfare, act of war, or attack on democratic institutions |
| encore presentation | rerun |
| energy independence | anti-competitive favoritism shown toward local producers |
| enhanced interrogation techniques
or national security interrogations |
torture |
| enteral feeding | force feeding |
| evaporated cane juice | refined sugar |
| equity access | second mortgage |
| face validity | lack of scientific evidence |
| filtration point | mass internment camp |
| flexible baton round or bean bag |
cloth-covered, lead-filled shotgun round |
| fog of war | war crime or human rights atrocity |
| food insecure | hungry |
| free enterprise system | capitalism |
| government relations professional | lobbyist |
| gestational carrier | surrogate mother |
| hacking | electronic breaking and entering |
| harvest | kill |
| health freedom sanctuary | quarantine ward |
| high demand group or close-knit group |
cult |
| high risk drinking | binge drinking |
| high standards | hard on the help |
| highly anticipated | long delayed |
| housing development | settlement |
| human intelligence gatherer | interrogator |
| human shield | civilian killed in a military attack |
| humane restraints | shackles |
| humanitarian intervention,
incursion, peace enforcement, peacekeeping mission, or special military operation |
invasion |
| husband who controls the frequency of sex |
rapist or abuser |
| ice pellets | hail |
| illiberal democracy | dictatorship |
| improvement (to infrastructure) | subsidy |
| incentivized witness | jailhouse snitch |
| independent learning | home schooling |
| independent professional worker | freelancer |
| inexpensive company | prostitute |
| institutionalist | a person who protects men in positions of power |
| intelligence community | nest of spies |
| intergroup bias, racial profiling, or racial insensitivity |
racism |
| interim employee | temp worker |
| internet sovereignty | nationwide censorship |
| intertextual creative process or duplicative language |
plagiarism |
| internment | mass incarceration |
| interval of confidence | margin of error |
| involuntary deboarding or re-accommodating the passenger |
forcible removal from a flight |
| involuntary relocation | slavery |
| italian open breakfast sandwich | cold pizza before 9 am |
| job creator | business owner |
| legacy assets | bad loans |
| lobbyist | influence peddler |
| longtime companion | gay lover |
| low information voter | person who votes against the elites |
| loyal fan base | cult followers |
| managed democracy | autocracy |
| mandatory conservation | rationing |
| manufactured-housing communities | trailer park |
| marine cover | fog |
| mass casualty event | massacre |
| message force multiplier | military public-relations officer |
| microdermal implantation | tattoo |
| multi-family | institutional |
| natural gas | methane |
| navigation center | homeless shelter |
| neuroelectrical silence | brain death |
| neuroseparated | beheaded |
| nonliteral commentary | lies |
| new member education or tradition |
hazing |
| one-party rule | dictatorship |
| outside professional activities | moonlighting |
| outside the box thinking | psychedelic experience |
| overserved | drunk |
| pain compliance | abuse with a billy club |
| paint transfer | car crash |
| passed away | died |
| pay for performance | executive bonus |
| peace line | security wall or defensive wall |
| peace process | low-intensity, long-duration warfare |
| person of interest | suspect |
| person who allegedly experienced the alleged conduct |
survivor of sexual assault |
| personal event | private business |
| picowaved | irradiated (food) |
| planned enforcement | surprise immigration raid |
| plea bargain | plea imposition |
| police-involved shooting | extra-judicial execution |
| political donation | bribe or kickback |
| post-industrial | rusted and polluted |
| post-traumatic stress disorder | shell shock |
| poverty of values | poverty of money |
| preemptive retention salary adjustment | executive pay raise |
| prediction market | sports gambling |
| premium support | medicare voucher |
| pressurized water | water cannon |
| previously owned | used |
| private citizens group | vigilante group |
| private contractor | employee who gets low wages and no benefits |
| proprioceptive, deep-pressure feedback to help with meltdown safety |
physical restraints for psychiatric patients |
| public opinion guidance | censorship |
| public-private partnership | giveaway of public funds or assets to politically connected companies |
| purpose-bred canine | dog used for medical research |
| quantitative easing | printing money |
| race realist | racist |
| recession | depression |
| regulatory relief | weakening or elimination of worker health and safety standards |
| relationship-based politics | official corruption |
| relocation center | concentration camp |
| repatriation | deportation |
| residual limb | stump |
| resource production | resource extraction |
| retail housing provider | landlord |
| retail transaction enabler | salesperson |
| rock dove | pigeon |
| rock legend | artist no longer able to sell records |
| sanitary landfill | dump |
| safety signal | medical intervention that harmed the patient |
| secondary ticket market | scalper's market |
| self-partnered | single |
| selfless volunteerism | forced labor at a religious worksite |
| senior citizen | old person |
| service jobs | servant jobs |
| serviceperson | warrior |
| smaller government | privateering |
| sobering center | drunk tank |
| sourcing, multishoring, partnerships | offshoring, outsourcing |
| special housing unit or administrative segregation |
solitary confinement |
| stepped seating | bleachers |
| studio apartment | zero-bedroom apartment |
| surge or force infusion |
escalation of troops |
| tactical rifle or modern sporting rifle |
assault rifle |
| tasks best handled at arm's length | dirty tricks |
| tear gas | CS gas |
| telemarketing | junk phone calls |
| therapeutic misadventure | botched medical procedure |
| transfer case or human remains pouch |
body bag |
| trespasser strike | person run over by a train |
| turbulent personal history | history of wife beating |
| unaccompanied minor | child forcibly separated from its parents |
| unguested confrontation | talk show hosted by a racist monologue artist |
| unexplained wealth | ill-gotten gains |
| unique performance character | mascot |
| unitary executive or decider |
dictator or strongman |
| urges contrary to the urge to swallow or reversal of fortune |
vomiting after competing in an eating contest |
| virginity test | sexual assault or sexual torture |
| waste repository | dump |