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econobabble

noun

Etymology

From econo- + babble.

  1. derived from *baba-✻
  2. derived from *bʰa-bʰa-✻
  3. inherited from *babalōną✻
  4. inherited from *bablōn✻
  5. inherited from *bæblian✻
  6. inherited from babelen
  7. prefixed as econobabble — “econo + babble”

Definitions

  1. Excessively obscure economic jargon.

    • Once you cut through all the econobabble, it says we're headed for a recession.
    • Politicians now use econobabble as a tool of mass confusion, aimed at scaring the public into doing things they don't want to do while narrowing our policy choices.
    • Today's orthodoxy (free market economy) is being spearheaded by the Bank and the Fund through the Structural Adjustment Programme that has a rather suggestive acronym of SAP. The phrase, now part of the current econobabble […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for econobabble. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA