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Definition of yes man
yes man
noun
- a person who always agrees with superiors.
I left the company because it wasn't growing as fast as it could have. The higher-ups had a propensity for hiring yes men.
- See more words with the same meaning: business (related to).
- See more words with the same meaning: dude, person of unspecified gender.
Last edited on Feb 23 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 21 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'business (related to)': | |
Definitions include: the corporate headquarters of a business, or a person or group representing the corporate headquarters. | |
Definitions include: work (in a professional or educational setting) that is designed to keep a person busy, but to not permit that person to accomplish anything of note. | |
Definitions include: pejorative alteration of "venture capitalist". | |
Definitions include: a fictional business report made popular by the film "Office Space" and used in the TV show "Lost." | |
Definitions include: to take something vertical, i.e. to upper management. | |
Definitions include: to punish one or more people due to a mistake, usually in a workplace environment or business context. | |
Definitions include: a pejorative term for both the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), likening them to the mafia. | |
Definitions include: speech commonly found in corporations, often filled with buzzwords, jargon, and "verbed" nouns. | |
Definitions include: a corporate performance review system in which employees are ranked in their performance, and the bottom-performing employees are terminated. | |
Definitions include: money used to start a business. | |
Definitions include: the acquisition of one company by another, for the purpose of acquiring the employees more so than other aspects of the company's business. | |
Definitions include: a request. | |
Definitions include: To copy or plagiarize, commonly used by emcees to indicate a plagiarist. | |
Definitions include: a person who provides illegal drugs. | |
Definitions include: the main source of income for a business. | |
Other terms relating to 'dude, person of unspecified gender': | |
Definitions include: a female. | |
Definitions include: alternate spelling of dog. | |
Definitions include: a British person. | |
Definitions include: "you all." | |
Definitions include: friendly greeting, especially after not having seen someone in a long time. | |
Definitions include: alternate spelling of shorty. | |
Definitions include: a person who raps. | |
Definitions include: young, semi-hip, web site professionals. Note: usually used in a derogatory manner. | |
Definitions include: a person who never (or rarely) buys goods to satisfy their desires. | |
Definitions include: attendees to an event. | |
Definitions include: "Tweep I'd like to follow." | |
Definitions include: woman. | |
Definitions include: a male. | |
Definitions include: a stand-in name used to represent the everyman. | |
Definitions include: visitors to a website. | |
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Other terms relating to 'man': | |
Definitions include: a man with an extremely large penis. | |
Definitions include: of course; definitely. | |
Definitions include: "assistant manager". | |
Definitions include: the man who a cheating spouse sees on the side. | |
Definitions include: clitoris. | |
Definitions include: acronym for "big man on campus". | |
Definitions include: a person who sells fake drugs. | |
Definitions include: a handsome man | |
Definitions include: fuck man. | |
Definitions include: to have sex | |
Definitions include: a US government agent, e.g. FBI agent. | |
Definitions include: a hired killer; "hit man". | |
Definitions include: human feces. | |
Definitions include: a man who is successful with women. | |
Definitions include: a man popular with women. | |
Other terms relating to 'yes': | |
Definitions include: an emphatic yes. | |
Definitions include: an emphatic "yes". | |
Definitions include: See "fuck". | |
Definitions include: See "fuck". | |
Definitions include: To be agreeing with. | |
Definitions include: "hell yeah" with the "fucking" infix intensifier. | |
Definitions include: A very excited yes. | |
Definitions include: variant of "hell to the yes". | |
Definitions include: see hells. | |
Definitions include: an emphatic "yes". | |
Definitions include: a phrase indicating agreement or support. | |
Definitions include: an emphatic "yes". | |
Definitions include: statement of agreement used when someone corrects one of your prior statements, and their correction was unnecessary because you are aware of that, and either the other person misunderstood you or you didn't phrase it well. | |
Definitions include: what to say when you don't know what to say. | |
Definitions include: "why". | |
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