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consultantese

consultantese noun: jargon or buzzwords used by consultants.

Noun

consultantese (uncountable)

  1. Jargon or buzzwords used by consultants.
    • The real problem is that the consultant is talking in broad, consultantese abstractions, [...]2003, Russell D. Lambert, Executive's Guide to the Wireless Workforce, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 24
    • We never quite converted him to consultantese (thank goodness), but we did move him a little toward the center.1993, Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: creating the high-performance organization, Harvard Business School Press, →ISBN, page x

Origin of consultantese

From consultant + -ese.

Questions about consultantese

What does consultantese mean?
Consultantese means jargon or buzzwords used by consultants.
What part of speech is consultantese?
Consultantese is a noun.

Words near consultantese in the dictionary

  1. consultancies
  2. consultancy
  3. consultand
  4. consultands
  5. consultant
  6. consultantese
  7. consultants
  8. consultantship
  9. consultantships
  10. consultaries
  11. consultary

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