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Rabbit – line cleaning instrument. A small plug that runs
through a line.
Professionalisms are words used in a definite trade, profession
or calling by people connected by common interests both at work and
at home. Professionalisms are correlated to terms. They name anew
already existing concepts, tools or instruments and have the typical
properties of a special code. The main feature of a professionalism is
its technicality. Let us compare professionalisms and terms:

Terms Professionalisms
Special words in the literary Special words in non-literary layer
layer that are easily decoded whose semantic structure is dim,
because their semantic structure generally they remain in
is transparent, they often enter circulation within a definite
the neutral stratum. community.

Examples of professionalisms:
Roustabout – a worker on an offshore rig who handles the
equipment and supplies that are sent to the rig from the shore base.
Toolpusher – an employee of a drilling contract who is in
charge of the entire drilling crew and the drilling rig.

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