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consultantese en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English consultant Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English consultantese From consultant + -ese.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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:
    • Consultantese for starting out on an assignment with little or no prior outline 1974, Robert Kirk Mueller, Buzzwords: A Guide to the Language of Leadership, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., →ISBN, page 54:
    • 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: