namesmanship
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The art of name-dropping or giving the names of people who are involved with a project, in order to confer status or legitimacy.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "They are thankful for a group of advertisers dedicated to conservatism, the soft sell and generic namesmanship!"
- "Namesmanship, as will be obvious by now, is no game. It deals with material that lies deeply in everyone and is brought to the surface by a few."
- "Every important home in Bexley was known by name, but not that of the current or even the previous owner. There was some unwritten code of namesmanship which attributed each house to a former owner who might, or might not, still be alive."
- "The latest trick, of couse, is to exchange the "college" label for that of "university." I dare not guess what may come next in academic namesmanship."
- "A quality stabilization bill, a citizen might suppose, would be a bill having something to do with quality stabilization. But that's where said citizen would betray his innocence of legislative namesmanship."
- "In effect, it means that DOD has agreed that, if most of the country's population and property are to be protected against ICBM's, some losses must be accepted. The Pentagon's namesmanship experts call this the “bloody nose” concept."