Browsing page 1 of words meaning corporate-speak (list of) (7 words total)

noun

• an item on a "to do" list.

  What are your current action items?

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  Last edited on Mar 01 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.

verb

• to debate at length on an unimportant decision.

  We need to stop bikeshedding and come to a consensus.

  We've been bikeshedding about the font choice all morning.

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  Last edited on Feb 21 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 30 2010.

origin

• For origin information, see the Wikipedia page for Parkinson's Law of Triviality.

  Last edited on Mar 30 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 30 2010.

other

• from now, into the future. Usually used in contrast to the near past, as when discussing future corporate plans.

                                                                                                                            
  
  Citation from "CSI Myths: The Shaky Science Behind Forensics", Popular Mechanics, Brad Reagan, August 2009 issue blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

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adjective

• crazy, irrational. Note: theorized that the term is a vague allusion to the "jack-in-the-box" toys, a box containing a head mounted on a spring that would pop open after a crank had been turned. The head would then bounce around. The unpredictable motion of the toy could be likened to someone who is "out of the box."

  I don't know what her problem is, but she's completely out of the box!

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  Last edited on Apr 24 2013. Submitted by John Smith from Phoenix, AZ, USA on Jun 21 1997.

• corporate-speak for "in a novel way." Typically used to refer to solving a problem or task. Often used with the verb "think." Has become cliche. Also outside (of) the box.

  We've got to think out of the box on this one.

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  Last edited on Jul 09 2007. Submitted by Anonymous on Jul 09 2007.

verb

• to stick one's head up out of a cubicle to look at something. The term comes from prairie dogs, who burrow in the ground. In a field with prairie dogs, if there's a loud noise, typically many of them will pop their heads up out of the ground.
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  Last edited on Nov 29 2001. Submitted by Kevin H. from Cedar Rapids, IA, USA on Nov 29 2001.

• to need to defecate so badly that the feces is coming out a bit, as a prairie dog looking out of its burrow.

  I was trying to hold in my poop which caused me to prairie dog.

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  Last edited on Feb 23 2003. Submitted by Nick M. from Washington, DC, USA on Feb 23 2003.

• to need to defecate.

  I'm prairie-dogging - let's find a bathroom.

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  Last edited on Nov 07 2010. Submitted by Evan R. from Wheaton, IL, USA on Apr 05 2004.