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marketroid en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Perhaps from marketer + -oid or droid.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, slang) A person who works in marketing, especially one who is ignorant and relies on buzzwords and deception.
   • […] some weedy intense-looking marketroid in casual-Friday drag and fashionable specs who seemed most upset about something. 2007, Charles Stross, Halting State:
   • […] 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:

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