List of buzzwords
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This is a list of common buzzwords which form part of the jargon of corporate, academic, government, and everyday work and social environments, as well as by writers and public speakers.
Contents
General conversation
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- Alignment[1]
- At the end of the day[1]
- Break through the clutter[2]
- Bring to the table[3]
- Buzzword[2]
- Clear goal[4]
- Disruptive innovation[5]
- Diversity[6]
- Empowerment[7][8]
- Exit strategy[7]
- Face time[7]
- Generation X[1]
- Globalization[9]
- Going forward (instead of "in the future")[10]
- Grow[11] – as in "grow the business".
- Headlights - to gain visibility into
- Holistic approach
- Impact[11] – instead of effect as a noun
- Leverage[2] – used as verb to mean magnify, multiply, augment, or increase.
- Millennial[1]
- Moving forward[12]
- New normal[13]
- On the runway[1]
- Organic growth[2]
- Outside the box[1][11]
- Paradigm[14]
- Paradigm shift[2][15]
- Proactive[11][14]
- Push the envelope
- Reach out[16][17] – as in "I'll reach out to sales to get the latest figures".
- Sea change[2]
- Sisterhood[18]
- Spin-up[19]
- Strategic Communication (also known as "Stratcom")
- Streamline[2]
- Survival strategy[1]
- Sustainability
- Synergy[2][8][11][14]
- Unpack (as in "Let me unpack that statement.")[20]
- Wellness[21]
- Wheelhouse (as in "That's in my wheelhouse.")[22]
- Win-win[1]
Education
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- Accountable talk[23]
- Higher-order thinking[24]
- Invested in[25]
- Run like a business[26]
- Student engagement[27][28][29]
- Common Core
- Bloom's Taxonomy
- Differentiated instruction
- Digital Literacy
- Flipped Classroom
- Guided Reading
- Instructional Scaffolding
- Multiple Intelligences
- Project-Based Learning
- Adaptive Learning
- Brain Break
- Cooperative Learning
Business, sales and marketing
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- Analytics[30]
- Ballpark figure[7]
- Bandwidth[1]
- Business-to-Business[7] – also known as B2B.
- Business-to-Consumer[7] – also known as B2C.
- Best of Breed[7]
- Best practices[7]
- Bizmeth[31] – portmanteau of "business method".
- Brand[31]
- Brick-and-mortar[15]
- Business process outsourcing[32][33] – also known as BPO.
- Buzzword compliant[34]
- Building Capabilities
- Circle Back
- Client-centric[7]
- Cloud computing[35]
- Close the loop[36]
- Co-opetition[37]
- Come-to-Jesus moment[38]
- Content marketing
- Core competency[39]
- Creative [40]
- Customer-centric[7](also customer-centric mindset)
- Deep dive
- Downsizing[7]
- Drinking the Kool-Aid[7] –trusting in things offered by authority figures
- Early-stage[41]
- Employer Branding
- Eating your own dogfood[7][31] –use a product yourself which you sell to others.
- Enable[42]
- Entitlement
- Enterprise[31]
- Event horizon[43]
- Eyeballs[15]
- -free, as in cholesterol-free seaweed or gluten-free eggs, lacking some putatively harmful substance that it never contained in the first place.
- Free value[2]
- Fulfilment issues[31]
- Generation Y
- Granular[31]
- Herding cats[7]
- Holistic (approach/integration)[44]
- Home real estate usage for an unoccupied dwelling unit
- Hyperlocal[45]
- Innovation[46]
- Innovative[40]
- Knowledge Process Outsourcing[32] – also known as KPO.
- Leverage[47]
- Like cunts [1] - giving the appearance of being total fools - see mugged off
- Logistics[48] – Now commonly used for shipping, and shipping companies
- Long Tail[49]
- Low Hanging Fruit[2][50]
- Make it pop[2]
- Mindshare[15]
- Mission Critical[15]
- Management Visibility[15]
- New economy[15]
- Next generation[31]
- Offshoring[43] – also known as Offshore outsourcing, or something being offshorable.
- Pain point[17][51]
- Paralysis by Analysis[52]
- Part of our DNA
- Passionate[53]
- Peel back the onion
- Pick and Shovel Work
- Profit center
- Quick-win
- Return on Investment[2] – also known as ROI.
- Reverse fulfilment[31] – Processing returned products.
- Rightshoring[54]
- Seamless (integration)[55]
- Serum
- Share options[31]
- Short Runway
- Silo (for "compartmentalize")
- Social Currency
- Socialize
- Solution[1]
- SOX[56] – abbreviation of Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Sustainability[57]
- Storytelling
- Startup
- Strategy
- Synergy
- Talent Relationship Management
- Tee off (begin something, i.e. a meeting or program)
- Touch Base
- Touchpoint[58]
- Upselling
- Upcycling
- Value-added[1]
- Visibility[43]
Science and technology
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- 4G[56]
- Aggregator[59]
- Agile[60]
- Ajax[8][56]
- Algorithm[61]
- Benchmarking[62]
- Back-end[31]
- Beta[8]
- Big data - larger data sets than last month
- Bleeding edge[31]
- Blog[59] – plus various other words that incorporate "blog"
- Bring your own Device - use of personal equipment (usually mobile) in a work environment
- Bricks-and-clicks[31][31]
- Clickthrough[31]
- Cloud[63]
- Collaboration[64]
- Content management[64]
- Content Management System[59] – also known as CMS.
- Convergence[65]
- Cross-platform[31]
- Datafication[66]
- Data mining[67] - any kind of data collection or analysis, even simple statistics such as taking averages on large data sets
- Data science[68]
- Deep dive[17]
- Deep web[69] - used interchageably with "Dark web" even though they're not the same
- Design pattern[70]
- DevOps[71]
- Digital divide[59]
- Digital Remastering[72]
- Digital Rights Management[8] – also known as DRM.
- Digital signage[73]
- Disruptive Technologies[74]
- Document management[64]
- Dot-bomb[15][31]
- E-learning[75]
- Engine[76]
- Enterprise Content Management[59] – also known as ECM.
- Enterprise Service Bus[77] – also known as ESB.
- Framework[8]
- Folksonomy[59]
- Fuzzy logic[78]
- Graham logic
- HTML5[79]
- Immersion[80]
- Information superhighway / Information highway[8]
- Internet of Things[81]
- Innovation[82]
- Mashup[8]
- Mobile[83]
- Modularity[84][85]
- Nanotechnology[86]
- Netiquette[59]
- Next Generation[80] (also "NextGen")
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Pandering
- Parsing
- PaaS
- Podcasting[56][59]
- Portal[31]
- Real-time[59]
- Responsive[87]
- Sensorization[88]
- SaaS[56]
- Scalability[89][90]
- Skeuomorphic
- Social bookmarking[56]
- Social software[59]
- Spam[59]
- Struts[91]
- Sync-up[15]
- Systems Development Life-Cycle
- Tagging[59]
- Think outside the box[59]
- Transmedia[92]
- User generated content[93]
- Viral
- Virtualization[56]
- Vlogging[59]
- Vortal[94]
- Web 2.0[8][56][59]
- Webinar[31][59]
- Weblog[59]
- Web services[64]
- Wikiality[95]
- Workflow[64][96][97]
Politics and current affairs
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Other/Uncategorized
See also
References
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- ↑ [1], Slate, May 1, 2013
- ↑ Diversity, more than a buzz word, The Daily Campus, February 19, 2004
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- ↑ Penn State University Press: Globalization: Buzzword or New Phenomenon?
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- ↑ What looms large on the media landscape as we hurtle towards 2012?, Irish Times
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- ↑ Meeting the Halal Test, Forbes magazine
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- ↑ The new business buzzword is: sustainability
- ↑ Talking Work: Buzz-off Buzzwords
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- ↑ Disruptive innovation
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