"The Medellin cartel is a shorthand description for something no one on the outside has seen in its entirety," a high-level American official said.

They swopped shorthand descriptions of their routes, their distances.

Click on a white dot, and you get a shorthand description of the object, along with its current location and orbital path.

The Court said that the statutory language incorporates all the refinements associated with the language, is a shorthand description of the worker's legal rights.

Travel similes are meant to be helpful shorthand descriptions, and yet they can be tricky things to wield.

'That is a good shorthand description of your chief product,' he added.

Using such a shorthand description leaves space for other topics.

The phrase 'interpretative paradigm' is used here as a shorthand description of newer theories of organization that first began to emerge in the early 1970s.

"Parking," a shorthand description of undisclosed arrangements to conceal the beneficial ownership of securities, is not criminal in all instances.

Any kind of shorthand description of uncertainty will form kinks.