Business Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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workout n. Tomlin was employed by a Columbia bank doing “workouts”—a term for taking a seized, failing business and making it profitable—and turned a failing workers’ dormitory in Hilton Head into successful vacation condominiums. [English Business] [full cite] (Feb. 11, 2006)

worthmore adj. He said there is “far greater” opportunity in the developing world as consumers trade up from lower quality, cheap beer, into modernised mainstream products and then on into what it refers to as “worthmore” brands. [English Advertising Business Jargon New or Nonce] [full cite] (Mar. 1, 2006)

zeitgeber n. All companies exist in a cacophony of competing time rhythms, relentlessly drummed out by, among others, suppliers, clients, and competitors…These “external pacers” are known among academics as zeitgebers—German for “time givers”and they exert tremendous influence on your company. Zeitgebers can include anything from the fiscal year to the production schedule of a supplier to the school calendar in your community, and every company possesses a unique set of them. The more activities in your organization are synchronized with a particular zeitgeber, the more you’re “entrained” to it. [German Germany United States Business] [full cite] (Jun. 4, 2004)

zhing-zhong n. Zhing-zhong is the street lingo for products from Asia—mainly China—which have hit the country. [Zimbabwe Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion Business] [full cite] (Aug. 1, 2004)

zhing-zhong n. A deluge of cheap counterfeits, nicknamed “zhing-zhongs,” imported mainly from Asia, has threatened the viability of the country’s leather industry. [English Zimbabwe Business] [full cite] (Aug. 2, 2004)

zombie company n. A new phrase, “zombie companies,” was coined to describe those companies kept alive by banks even though they were insolvent. Some were property companies the value of whose assets had fallen by more than 30 per cent and with clearly no ability to repay their debts. Yet there was a reluctance to call in the loans. [English Business Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 28, 2009)

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