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bizbabble en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈbɪzbæbəl/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *bisīg Old English bisiġ Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Old English bisiġnes Middle English bisynes English businessclip. English biz English babble English bizbabble From biz + babble.

Meanings

  1. (slang, uncountable) Meaningless verbiage or jargon of business executives.
    • If you'd been using your approach a year ago, the list of A-rated funds for the preceding year—indeed, even for the preceding five years—would be loaded with funds invested in what the bizbabble channels call "the tech-heavy NASDAQ" (it's gotten to sound sort of like Homer's "wine-dark sea" and "rosy-fingered dawn" to me). 2001, Erwin S. Strauss, The Connection, issues 248–254
    • I found out recently that bizbabble and HR speak have little influence on whether a company stays in business. 2009 October 12, BMJ, “Re: Hey, guys.....”, in sci.research.careers (Usenet), retrieved 18 Jan 2015:
    • Ouch, Abernathy thought, SET, targets, white papers, articulate, strategies, deployed. Bizbabble. No soul. He pushed himself to act interested. 1991, Stephen Baetz, Change Is: a Personal Guide for Organizational Change, page 26:

Translations (1)

nl bedrijfslingo (verbiage of business executives)