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marketroid

marketroid noun: a person who works in marketing, especially one who is ignorant and relies on buzzwords and deception.

Noun

marketroid (plural marketroids)

  1. (derogatory, slang) A person who works in marketing, especially one who is ignorant and relies on buzzwords and deception.
    • […] identically dressed in blue three-piece suits, hung around accosting visitors with annoyingly impenetrable PHB marketroid jargon […]2002, Gardner Dozois, Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future
    • […] some weedy intense-looking marketroid in casual-Friday drag and fashionable specs who seemed most upset about something.2007, Charles Stross, Halting State

Forms of marketroid

pluralmarketroids

Origin of marketroid

Perhaps from marketer + -oid or droid.

Questions about marketroid

What does marketroid mean?
Marketroid means a person who works in marketing, especially one who is ignorant and relies on buzzwords and deception.
What part of speech is marketroid?
Marketroid is a noun.
What is the plural of marketroid?
The plural of marketroid is marketroids.

Words near marketroid in the dictionary

  1. marketmen
  2. marketor
  3. marketors
  4. marketplace
  5. marketplaces
  6. marketroid
  7. marketroids
  8. markets
  9. marketsful
  10. marketshare
  11. marketshares

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