Definition of corporate speak

corporate speak    

noun - uncountable

• speech commonly found in corporations, often filled with buzzwords, jargon, and "verbed" nouns.

  I can't stand all the corporate speak used in press releases.

  • See more words with the same meaning: business (related to).

  Last edited on Sep 23 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 21 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'business (related to)':
brick-and-mortar	Definitions include: a "traditional" business with a physical presence.
inside the box	Definitions include: conventionally.
moofer	Definitions include: contraction of "mobile out of office worker".
safety meeting	Definitions include: a break in the workday when employees gather to ingest drugs.
core competency	Definitions include: a person's primary skill.
diggings	Definitions include: a residence or work place.
brand ambassador	Definitions include: in marketing, a satisfied customer who tells others about his positive experience with products of a particular brand name.
ic	Definitions include: "I see".
cow orker	Definitions include: "co-worker".
rank-and-yank	Definitions include: a corporate performance review system in which employees are ranked in their performance, and the bottom-performing employees are terminated.
corporate	Definitions include: the corporate headquarters of a business, or a person or group representing the corporate headquarters.
game, the	Definitions include: the pursuit of money.
bini	Definitions include: shortened form of "business."
hook up	Definitions include: a person who provides illegal drugs.
call up to the majors	Definitions include: to offer a promotion in a job or position in life.
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Slang terms with the same root words

Other terms relating to 'corporate':
corporate	Definitions include: the corporate headquarters of a business, or a person or group representing the corporate headquarters.
corporate whore	Definitions include: One who has sold more than their labor to a corporation or corporations, who has forsaken personal values and done something for corporate money that is unethical, illegal, or immoral.
Other terms relating to 'speak':
geek speak	Definitions include: technical language.
leetspeak	Definitions include: a form of chat writing in which letters are replaced with similar-looking numbers and punctuation.
leet speak	Definitions include: a variant of written language that replaces letters with similar looking numbers or symbols, or similar sounding letter combinations.
speak Dutch	Definitions include: to vomit.
speak of the devil.	Definitions include: said when a person who was recently being discussed appears.
speak the language	Definitions include: to be able to use the terminology used in a particular line of work, field of business, field of study, etc.
speak the same language	Definitions include: to have the same beliefs.
webspeak	Definitions include: the words and phrases that are (mostly) unique to communication on the world wide web.

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