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- noun The
jargon used incorporations and otherbureaucracies .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Finchem gets a lot of grief from the golf media for speaking in corporatese.
The State of the Game in 2012 John Paul Newport 2012
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Like its awful cousin, corporatese ( "going forward, our customer centric metrics will be optimized and enabled for actionable deliverables"), overwrought sports analogies distract people and muddle the message.
Leaders need to 'pass' on the sports cliches Jena McGregor 2010
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But here she was, spouting bland corporatese and basking in the afterglow of a deal that earned her millions of dollars.
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I used to hate corporatese, but these words have fallen out of favor: "proactive" and "bottom line" replaced by "at the end of the day".
Annoying and pretentious terms. Ann Althouse 2008
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That is, one of your jobs as a speechwriters is to translate the bureaucratic into the poetic, the legalese into the eloquent, the complex into the simple, the corporatese into the conversational.
Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter: Five Presidents and other Political Adventures 1997
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Here is no Mitt Romney in a tailored suit speaking corporatese.
Political Cortex 2010
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It's part Dungeons and Dragons, part Finnegans Wake, part modern corporatese (I like that "Senior Gunner" is the second-lowest rank).
Balloon Juice Arkon DougJ 2010
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Here is no Mitt Romney in a tailored suit speaking corporatese.
Political Cortex 2010
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The tone will mirror the dynamics of a conversations vs. those of 1970s corporatese.
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The tone will mirror the dynamics of a conversations vs. those of 1970s corporatese.
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