(education) A word that a learner recognizes, or is expected to recognize, on sight.

plural of sight word

(psychiatry) A nonsensical assemblage of words, typical of schizophrenia, Wernicke's aphasia, and some other mental disorders. / Meaningless text generated by a computer.

Please say this word out loud so that I can learn how it is pronounced.

plural of magic word

Any word that has a magical effect when uttered. / (in teaching polite behaviour to children) One of the words please, thank you, or hello.

A person with temporary permission to work in another country.

A legal authorization which allows a person to take employment in a country other than that in which he/she holds citizenship.

(programming) A data structure that represents a set of strings and allows for a query operation that tests whether a given string belongs to the set in time proportional to its length (thus more efficient in some situations than a trie).

plural of compound word