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Definition of glory vulture
glory vulture
noun
- a person attaches themselves to high profile task or project in order to enhance their own career.
- See more words with the same meaning: business (related to).
Last edited on May 04 2011. Submitted by Jack Fretwell from London, Greater London, UK on Apr 08 2008.
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Other terms relating to 'business (related to)': | |
| Definitions include: "executive." | |
| Definitions include: pejorative alteration of "venture capitalist". | |
| Definitions include: the "Target" retailer. | |
| Definitions include: a female. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "small office / home office". | |
| Definitions include: a request. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "another bloody cathedral" or "another bloody church". | |
| Definitions include: to invent ideas and solutions, usually by coming up with as many as possible while not rejecting any out of hand. | |
| Definitions include: to upper management. | |
| Definitions include: easy or unchallenging. | |
| Definitions include: a break in the workday when employees gather to ingest drugs. | |
| Definitions include: speech commonly found in corporations, often filled with buzzwords, jargon, and "verbed" nouns. | |
| Definitions include: to offer a promotion in a job or position in life. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "patient fell over", a notation used by doctors in the UK on medical charts. | |
| Definitions include: an all-night period of awakedness to finish a task. | |
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Other terms relating to 'glory': | |
| Definitions include: To fuck someone with a great body but an ugly face. | |
| Definitions include: a hole in a wall accessible from both sides (especially the divider between bathroom stalls) used for anonymous sex. | |
Other terms relating to 'vulture': | |
| Definitions include: a person excessively interested in culture. | |
| Definitions include: to take advantage of someone while they're in a severely altered state, especially heavily under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol. | |
| Definitions include: pejorative alteration of "venture capitalist". | |
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