Meanings
- slanguncountableMeaningless verbiage or jargon of business executives.
I found out recently that bizbabble and HR speak have little influence on whether a company stays in business.
2009 October 12, BMJ, “Re: Hey, guys.....”, in sci.research.careers (Usenet), retrieved 18 Jan 20152 more examples
Ouch, Abernathy thought, SET, targets, white papers, articulate, strategies, deployed. Bizbabble. No soul. He pushed himself to act interested.
1991, Stephen Baetz, Change Is: a Personal Guide for Organizational Change, page 26If you'd been using your approach a year ago, the list of A-rated funds for the preceding year—indeed, even for the preceding five years—would be loaded with funds invested in what the bizbabble channels call "the tech-heavy NASDAQ" (it's gotten to sound sort of like Homer's "wine-dark sea" and "rosy-fingered dawn" to me).
2001, Erwin S. Strauss, The Connection, issues 248–254
Origin
- Proto-West Germanic*bisīg
- Old Englishbisiġ
- Old Englishbisiġnes
- Middle Englishbisynes
- Englishbusinessclip.
- Englishbiz
- Englishbabble
- Englishbizbabble
Translations
Dutch bedrijfslingo
- bedrijfslingoverbiage of business executives
Cite this entry
bizbabble. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bizbabble
“bizbabble.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bizbabble. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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