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corporate-speak

corporate-speak is the alternative form of corporatespeak.

Meaning of corporatespeak

Noun

corporatespeak (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, informal) The jargon used within business and corporations.
    • The advertising slogans, once linguistically and culturally translated, lose none of the corporatespeak inanity that they convey in English.2007 October 7, “Letters”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013
  2. (derogatory, informal) The highly formal language used in advertisements and public relations-related statements from corporations.

Questions about corporate-speak

What is corporate-speak the alternative form of?
Corporate-speak is the alternative form of corporatespeak.

Words near corporate-speak in the dictionary

  1. corporate veil
  2. corporate veils
  3. corporate welfare
  4. corporate welfare bum
  5. corporate welfare bums
  6. corporate-speak
  7. corporated
  8. corporately
  9. corporateness
  10. corporates
  11. corporatese

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corporate-speak (page history and authors); corporatespeak (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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