pragmatics

/P R AE0 G M AE1 T IH0 K S/
noun
  1. 1

    A man of business.

  2. 2

    A busybody.

  3. 3

    A public decree.

noun
  1. 1

    The study of the use of language in a social context.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pragmatic, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pragmatics