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Definition of Buzzword
1. Noun. Stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition.
Definition of Buzzword
1. Noun. (pejorative) A word drawn from or imitative of technical jargon, and often rendered meaningless and fashionable through abuse by non-technical persons in a seeming show of familiarity with the subject. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Buzzword
1. a word used to impress someone [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buzzword
Literary usage of Buzzword
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development by Jane L. Parpart, Patricia Connelly, Eudine Barriteau (2000)
"In the context of heightened international competition and rapid technological
change, capital strove for more "flexibility," another buzzword of the 1990s. ..."
2. States, Markets, and Just Growth: Development in the Twenty-first Century by Atul Kohli, Chung-in Moon, Georg Sørensen (2003)
"Globalization Globalization is a new buzzword in the lexicon of development
discussions, which has taken on an ideological quality. ..."
3. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"The new buzzword in development discourse is "national ownership" of policies
and "commitment" of political leaders to reforms. What remains an empirical ..."
4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"... Jour. of Gastronomy, Summer 1984 Occasionally it is pure buzzword: The speech
was state-of-the-art Sam: tough, smart and calm —Nancy Cooper, Newsweek, ..."
5. Central Asia and the World: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan by Michael Mandelbaum (1994)
"... of the meeting was not to foster separatism, but to improve regional performance
within the wider whole. The Gorbachev buzzword of the period was ..."
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