corporate speak
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Business schools teach “corporate” models, theoretical exercises in mediocrity that, in the great majority of cases, have no real application in the business world. They teach “corporate speak” when most business owners succeed with street sense. Education does not equal leadership -- performance does."
- "At her peak at Morgan, she reputedly earned twenty or thirty million dollars a year. That’s a lot of cash, but it’s nothing like the riches that a senior partner at KP can pull down. I can only guess that she enjoyed being at the center of the action, and she liked being a “thought leader” (like virtually everybody on Wall Street, she had a weakness for corporate speak)."
- "“I’m thinking he’s going to be like, ‘Hey, Big Papa,’” Mr. McCaskill said with a laugh. Instead, “Marcus was like, ‘Hi Drew, I see you’ve recently made a career transition, and I have a current career scenario I’m navigating,’” he said. Though the corporate speak they settled into just after wasn’t exactly a love language, Mr. McCaskill, then an independent diversity, equity and inclusion consultant in Harlem, felt a tug to pay it forward."