0 a word or phrase that is often repeated by, or becomes connected with a particular organization, especially a political group
A hundred catchwords, a thousand raised voices, and not one cool head to realize that war is not a game.
But even a bad book can be a measure of the time, showing the ideas current and the catchwords that were thought likely to attract the reading public.
Real world complications are finally analyzed under three catchwords: human capital formation, responsibility, and the subsistence constraint.
The changes in the use of catchwords reflect the varying characteristics of different periods of time.
From this perspective, catchwords are signs of the times.