Nevertheless, the term is a set phrase that serves as a convenient, well-understood shorthand.

The notation -de2 is a convenient shorthand for this pattern.

Even if they do all use the same language now, pictographs are still convenient shorthand.

The APA notes diagnostic labels are primarily for use as a "convenient shorthand" among professionals.

The jargon, though mostly a matter of convenient shorthand, also proclaims membership in an academic guild.

Michael decided the name Johnny Boy Gomes had become a convenient shorthand, a symbol.

These well-known styles provide a convenient shorthand means for communicating about existing bonsai and for designing new ones.

It is basically a convenient shorthand for saying "infer that".

David Wilson: Has 'evil' become a convenient shorthand for people and actions we prefer not to understand?

These names provide a convenient shorthand for the Boolean operations.