单词 | officese |
释义 | officesen. Now rare. Language considered characteristic of or appropriate to an office; = commercialese n. 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 1935 A. P. Herbert in Punch 19 June 730/2 It is just the misplaced effort to ‘write like a book’, to be elegant and flowery, that yields the sickliest growths of ‘officese’ and Jungle English—all these ‘inst.'s’ and ‘ult.'s’ and ‘in regard to's’ and ‘favours’ and ‘representatives’. 1942 E. Partridge Usage & Abusage 218/2 Commercialese or Business English (or, as A. P. Herbert calls it, Officese). 1960 E. Partridge Charm of Words i. 22 Commercialese..has also been called officese. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1935 |
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