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managementese

noun

Etymology

From management + -ese.

  1. derived from manus — “hand”
  2. derived from *manizāre✻ — “handle”
  3. derived from maneggiare
  4. derived from manege
  5. inherited from *manage✻
  6. inherited from manage
  7. formed as management — “manage + -ment”
  8. suffixed as managementese — “management + ese”

Definitions

  1. The jargon used by management.

    • Even phrased as they are in Higher Managementese, these comments touch the heart of the matter.
    • The uniqueness of Perotspeak is its mixture of rustic metaphor with modern managementese.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for managementese. 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