Dictionary

Amabot en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈæm.əˌbɑt/ (General-American)
• /ˈæm.əˌbɒt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Blend of Amazon + bot.

Meanings

1. (informal) A particularly dedicated employee of Amazon.com, Inc..
   • Amabots are workaholics who seem to thrive on the relentlessly fast pace. One example is Dina Vaccari, who was charged to sell Amazon gift cards and used her own money, without approval, to pay for a freelancer […] 2016, Gareth R. Jones, Jennifer M. George, Mary Barrett, Contemporary Management:
   • Processing that much information puts a drain on morale. “If you are a good Amazonian, you become an Amabot,” one employee told the Times reporters. 2018, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Thomas Ramge, Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data:
   • And Amabots sacrifice: One employee reported not sleeping for four days straight (and once used her own money to hire a freelance worker in India to enter data so she could complete more work); […] 2018, Dennis K. Mumby, Timothy R. Kuhn, Organizational Communication: A Critical Introduction, page 327:
   • Those who can take it become what's known within the company as “Amabots,” proud soldiers in Bezos's march to world domination. One former employee described the company's labor relations policy as “Purposeful Darwinism.” 2016, Doug Hill, Not So Fast: Thinking Twice about Technology, page 67:

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Hypernyms

Amazonian