单词 | management-speak |
释义 | management-speakn. Frequently depreciative. A form of language considered typical of business managers or consultants, esp. in being obfuscatory, needlessly complex, or empty of useful meaning. Cf. managementese n., Newspeak n., technospeak n. at techno- comb. form 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > used by other groups indenture Englisha1568 water language1702 jockeyism1802 slum1812 Polari1846 stable-language1856 scientificism1860 water-slang1860 Oxfordish1863 galley-slang1867 pitmatic1885 commercialese1910 legalese1911 academese1917 Hollywoodese1920 businessese1921 Hollywoodism1925 trade unionese1927 advertisingese1929 officese1935 sociologese1940 Whitehallese1940 Newspeak1949 patter1949 Pentagonese1950 educationese1958 computerese1960 managementese1961 spacespeak1963 computer-speak1968 techno-jargon1972 business-speak1973 Eurospeak1975 Euro-jargon1976 technospeak1976 doctorspeak1977 corporate-speak1978 medspeak1979 mellowspeak1979 technobabble1981 teenspeak1982 management-speak1986 codespeak1987 1986 Sunday Times 13 July 74/7 Most replies were standard management-speak: leadership, motivation and communication—the kind of terms offered by academics and consultants that can, and do, mean everything and anything. 1993 G. Pitt in P. B. H. Birks Examining Law Syllabus xi. 65 It is necessary to start by mentioning some external constraints (or 'challenges' in present management-speak). 2000 J. Simpson Mad World, my Masters (2001) vii. 243 In the management-speak of today's television this is known as ‘multi-skilling’, though we used to call it ‘one-man-banding’. 2002 Boston Globe (Nexis) 24 Apr. f6 CRM [= Customer Relationship Management] is management-speak for ‘getting the most from existing customers’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1986 |
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