quiet quit
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To cease overachieving at one's workplace to focus on one's personal life; to do only what is reasonably or contractually required.
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see quiet, quit.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: work to rule"
- "He said that he is going to quiet quit his job because he wants to focus on his family."
- "The TikToker [@zkchillin] narrates in the video: “I recently learned about this term called quiet quitting, where you’re not outright quitting your job but you’re quitting the idea of going above and beyond.[…]”"
- "Emma O'Brien, 31, from London quiet quit from her job as a personal assistant within the retail sector, after also being turned down for a pay rise."
- "Instead of managers worrying about quiet quitting, I think they should take away one lesson: Don't rely so heavily on employees going above and beyond their job description."
- "Part of what has enabled workers to participate in quiet quitting and the Great Resignation is the rare amount of leverage they've had amid a persisting labor shortage, but “resenteeism” signals that people are finding themselves in a tougher spot with the cost of living and a fear of layoffs."
Etymology
Back-formation from quiet quitting.