List of buzzwords
This is a list of common buzzwords which form part of the jargon of corporate, academic, government, and everyday work and social environments, as well as by writers and public speakers.
General conversation
- Action this/that
- Alignment[1]
- At the end of the day[1]
- Break through the clutter[2]
- Bring to the table[3]
- Buzzword[2]
- Clear goal[4]
- Disruptive innovation[5]
- Diversity[6]
- Empowerment[7][8]
- Exit strategy[7]
- Face time[7]
- Generation X[1]
- Globalization[9]
- Going forward (instead of "in the future")[10]
- Grow[11] – as in "grow the business".
- Headlights - to gain visibility into
- Holistic approach
- Impact[11] – instead of effect as a noun
- Leverage[2] – used as verb to mean magnify, multiply, augment, or increase.
- Millennial[1]
- Moving forward[12]
- New normal[13]
- On the runway[1]
- Organic growth[2]
- Outside the box[1][11]
- Paradigm[14]
- Paradigm shift[2][15]
- Proactive[11][14]
- Push the envelope
- Reach out[16][17] – as in "I'll reach out to sales to get the latest figures".
- Sea change[2]
- Sisterhood[18]
- Spin-up[19]
- Strategic Communication (also known as "Stratcom")
- Streamline[2]
- Survival strategy[1]
- Sustainability
- Synergy[2][8][11][14]
- Unpack (as in "Let me unpack that statement.")[20]
- Wellness[21]
- Wheelhouse (as in "That's in my wheelhouse.")[22]
- Win-win[1]
Education
- Accountable talk[23]
- Higher-order thinking[24]
- Invested in[25]
- Run like a business[26]
- Student engagement[27][28][29]
- Common Core
- Bloom's Taxonomy
- Differentiated instruction
- Digital Literacy
- Flipped Classroom
- Guided Reading
- Instructional Scaffolding
- Multiple Intelligences
- Project-Based Learning
- Adaptive Learning
- Brain Break
- Cooperative Learning
Business, sales and marketing
- Analytics[30]
- Ballpark figure[7]
- Bandwidth[1]
- Business-to-Business[7] – also known as B2B.
- Business-to-Consumer[7] – also known as B2C.
- Best of Breed[7]
- Best practices[7]
- Bizmeth[31] – portmanteau of "business method".
- Brand[31]
- Brick-and-mortar[15]
- Business process outsourcing[32][33] – also known as BPO.
- Buzzword compliant[34]
- Building capabilities/Capability building[35]
- Cherry-Pick
- Circle Back
- Client-centric[7]
- Cloud computing[36]
- Close the loop[37]
- Co-opetition[38]
- Come-to-Jesus moment[39]
- Content marketing
- Core competency[40]
- Creative [41]
- Customer-centric[7](also customer-centric mindset)
- Deep dive
- Dove tail
- Downsizing[7]
- Drill down [42]
- Drinking the Kool-Aid[7] –trusting in things offered by authority figures
- Early-stage[43]
- Employer branding
- Eating your own dogfood[7][31] –use a product yourself which you sell to others.
- Enable[44]
- Entitlement
- Enterprise[31]
- Event horizon[45]
- Eyeballs[15]
- -free, as in cholesterol-free seaweed or gluten-free eggs, lacking some putatively harmful substance that it never contained in the first place.
- Free value[2]
- Fulfilment issues[31]
- Generation Y
- Granular[31]
- Herding cats[7]
- Holistic (approach/integration)[46]
- Home real estate usage for an unoccupied dwelling unit
- Hyperlocal[47]
- Innovation[48]
- Innovative[41]
- Knowledge Process Outsourcing[32] – also known as KPO.
- Leverage[49]
- Logistics[50] – Now commonly used for shipping, and shipping companies
- Long Tail[51]
- Low Hanging Fruit[2][52]
- Make it pop[2]
- Mindshare[15]
- Mission Critical[15]
- Management Visibility[15]
- New economy[15]
- Next generation[31]
- Offshoring[45] – also known as Offshore outsourcing, or something being offshorable.
- Pain point[17][53]
- Paralysis by Analysis[54]
- Part of our DNA
- Passionate[55]
- Peel back the onion
- Online tonight brains?
- Pick and Shovel Work
- Profit center
- Quick-win
- Return on Investment[2] – also known as ROI.
- Reverse fulfilment[31] – Processing returned products.
- Rightshoring[56]
- Seamless (integration)[57]
- Serum
- Share options[31]
- Short Runway
- Silo (for "compartmentalize")
- Social Currency
- Socialize
- Solution[1]
- SOX[58] – abbreviation of Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Sustainability[59]
- Storytelling
- Startup
- Strategy
- Synergy
- Take Offline[60]
- Talent Relationship Management
- Tee off (begin something, i.e. a meeting or program)
- Touch Base
- Touchpoint[61]
- Upselling
- Upcycling
- Value-added[1]
- Visibility[45]
- Water under the bridge [62]
- We are who we are
Science and technology
- 4G[58]
- Aggregator[63]
- Agile[64]
- Ajax[8][58]
- Algorithm[65]
- Benchmarking[66]
- Back-end[31]
- Beta[8]
- Big data - larger data sets than last month
- Bleeding edge[31]
- Blog[63] – plus various other words that incorporate "blog"
- Bring your own Device - use of personal equipment (usually mobile) in a work environment
- Bricks-and-clicks[31][31]
- Clickthrough[31]
- Cloud[67]
- CloudOps
- Collaboration[68]
- Content management[68]
- Content Management System[63] – also known as CMS.
- Convergence[69]
- Cross-platform[31]
- Cyber-physical Systems (CSP)
- Datafication[70]
- Data mining[71] - any kind of data collection or analysis, even simple statistics such as taking averages on large data sets
- Data science[72]
- Deep dive[17]
- Deep web[73] - used interchageably with "Dark web" even though they're not the same
- Design pattern[74]
- DevOps[75]
- Digital divide[63]
- Digital Remastering[76]
- Digital Rights Management[8] – also known as DRM.
- Digital signage[77]
- Disruptive Technologies[78]
- Document management[68]
- Dot-bomb[15][31]
- ____-Driven Development[79]
- E-learning[80]
- End-to-End
- Engine[81]
- Enterprise Content Management[63] – also known as ECM.
- Enterprise Service Bus[82] – also known as ESB.
- Evolution - Often use ambiguously in political or sociological arguments in reference to theories of social Darwinism. (e.x. "Society has evolved.")
- Framework[8]
- Folksonomy[63]
- Fuzzy logic[83]
- Growth Hacking
- HTML5[84]
- Immersion[85]
- Information superhighway / Information highway[8]
- Internet of Things[86]
- Innovation[87]
- Machine Learning
- Mashup[8]
- Microservices
- Mobile[88]
- Modularity[89][90]
- Nanotechnology[91]
- Netiquette[63]
- NFV- Network Function virtualization
- Next Generation[85] (also "NextGen")
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Omnichannel
- Pandering
- Parsing
- PaaS
- Podcasting[58][63]
- Portal[31]
- Real-time[63]
- Responsive Web Design[92]
- Sensorization[93]
- SaaS[58]
- Scalability[94][95]
- Skeuomorphic
- Social bookmarking[58]
- Social software[63]
- Software Defined _blank_
- SDN- Software defined Networking
- Spam[63]
- Sync-up[15]
- Systems Development Life-Cycle
- Tagging[63]
- Think outside the box[63]
- Thought Leader
- Transmedia[96]
- UC - Unified Communications
- User generated content[97]
- Viral
- Virtualization[58]
- Vlogging[63]
- Vortal[98]
- Web 2.0[8][58][63]
- Webinar[31][63]
- Weblog[63]
- Web services[68]
- Wikiality[99]
- Workflow[68][100][101]
Politics and current affairs
Other/Uncategorized
See also
References
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- ↑ "Georgia Aspires to "Lead the Nation in Improving Student Achievement" US Education Delivery Institute http://www.deliveryinstitute.org/deliveryinaction/georgia-aspires-%E2%80%9Clead-nation-improving-student-achievement%E2%80%9D
- ↑ , Slate, May 1, 2013
- ↑ Diversity, more than a buzz word, The Daily Campus, February 19, 2004
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "BuzzWhack.com". buzzwhack.com.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Buzzword Hell". buzzwordhell.com.
- ↑ Penn State University Press: Globalization: Buzzword or New Phenomenon?
- ↑ "13 Buzzwords to Stop Using".
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Business buzzword hall of fame". Blethen Maine Newspapers. September 2002. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
- ↑ Megan Patrick (2011-01-18), Most Annoying Buzzwords, retrieved 2013-01-10
- ↑ "China's 'New Normal' Is Dose of Old Reality".
- 1 2 3 "The Buzzword Bingo Book: The Complete, Definitive Guide to the Underground Workplace Game of Doublespeak", author: Benjamin Yoskovitz, publisher: Villard, ISBN 978-0-375-75348-0
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Cnet.com's Top 10 Buzzwords". CNET. CBS Interactive.
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- 1 2 3 Is it time to buck the buzzword trend?, The Age
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- 1 2 India Daily: The coming wave of Knowledge Process Outsourcing
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- ↑ Paul McFedries. "buzzword-compliant - Word Spy". wordspy.com.
- ↑ http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/building-capabilities-for-performance
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- ↑ "14 Popular Marketing Buzzwords Explained".
- ↑ FindArticles: Co-opetition: buzzword or serious IT strategy?
- ↑ "'Come To Jesus Moment' Is The Most Annoying Business Expression On Earth".
- ↑
- 1 2 "Overused LinkedIn Buzzwords … Are Job Descriptions and Recruiters to Blame?". ERE Media.
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- ↑ http://www.learnings.org/learn.asp?word=enable&d=101
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- ↑ Meeting the Halal Test, Forbes magazine
- ↑ "The Long Tail's maths begin to crumble". theregister.co.uk.
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- ↑ Bruce Watson. "Buzzword of the Week: Bringing the 'Pain Point'". DailyFinance.com.
- ↑ "Paralysis Analysis and the Paradox of Choice".
- ↑ Haymarket Business Interactive. "The top ten tired job ad buzzwords". managementtoday.co.uk.
- ↑ Global Business Watch: Rightshoring: The Latest Outsourcing Buzzword
- ↑ "Content-Free Buzzword-Compliant Vocabulary List". pragmaticmarketing.com.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Computer Glossary, Computer Terms - Technology Definitions and Cheat Sheets from WhatIs.com - The Tech Dictionary and IT Encyclopedia". techtarget.com.
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- ↑
- ↑ Talking Work: Buzz-off Buzzwords
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- 1 2 3 4 5 IT Toolbox: Knowledge Management Knowledge Base
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- ↑ "Thirteenth Parallel". 13thparallel.org.
- ↑ "Industry Watch: Behind the APM and DevOps buzzwords". SD Times.
- ↑ Scenta Music Features: Remixing, remastering, rejuvenating
- ↑ "Picture This: Digital Signage". digitalcontentproducer.com.
- ↑ Disruptive innovation
- ↑ Test-driven development, Behavior-driven development, Feature-driven development
- ↑ "InsideKnowledge Magazine: The winning formula: A blended approach to cross-platform content". ikmagazine.com.
- ↑ "Black Ops 2 studio head defends lack of 'new engine'". Shacknews.
- ↑ "Enterprise Service Bus (ESB): Lasting concept or latest buzzword?". SearchSOA.
- ↑ "An Introduction To Fuzzy Control Systems". faqs.org.
- ↑ HTML5 is a Brand
- 1 2 N-Gage At E3 Showcases Immersive Games And Next-Generation Mobile Gaming
- ↑ "Internet of Things - Microsoft". microsoft.com. Microsoft.
- ↑ "interim thoughts...: Too much innovation". ecophilo.blogspot.com.
- ↑ "The Hindu Business Line : Mobile is the buzzword". blonnet.com.
- ↑ University of Minnesota, Center for Cognitive Sciences: The modularity of mind
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- ↑ Piscataquis County Economic Development Council: UMaine opens state-of-the-art lab
- ↑ "HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS". html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com.
- ↑ Gerard Meijer (2008). Smart Sensor Systems. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 1–404. ISBN 978-0-470-86692-4.
- ↑ Zend Developer Zone: An Interview With George Schlossnagle
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- ↑ Transmedia tales and the future of storytelling, Wired UK
- ↑ "Voter-Generated Content: A Better Buzzword". TechPresident.
- ↑ "Vortal Combat: The Early Years". businessweek.com.
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- ↑ "Communication Arts Magazine: Web ReDesign: Workflow that Works". commarts.com.
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- ↑ Big Society
- ↑ Facet Publishing: Challenge and Change in the Information Society
- ↑ "What is "political capital," anyway?". Slate Magazine.
- ↑ "Statism". Ayn Rand Lexicon.
- ↑ "BBC NEWS - Business - Hard hat time for rail champion". bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ "
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External links
- Investopedia's List of Buzz Words
- Global Language Monitor's Lists of Political, High Tech, Youthful Jargon
- Rhymer.net's Directory of Business Jargon and Buzzwords
- Exhaustive List of Jargons for MBAs
- The Most Overused Buzzwords in Public Relations
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