bizspeak

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noun

The jargon used in business.

OriginEnglish biz ← Middle English bisynes ← Old English bisiġnes →
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Meanings

nounbizspeak (uncountable)
  1. informaluncountableThe jargon used in business.

    Calls to nominate the worst mission statement appear periodically on the Web. And the “mission statement generator” at www.dilbert.com strings together clumps of bizspeak to create fictitious mission statements.

    2007 September 23, Kelley Holland, “In Mission Statements, Bizspeak and Bromides”, in New York Times

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
corporatespeak

Origin

  1. Proto-West Germanic*bisīg
  2. Old Englishbisiġ
  3. Old Englishbisiġnes
  4. Middle Englishbisynes
  5. Englishbusinessclip.
  6. Englishbiz
  7. Englishbizspeak

From biz + -speak.

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Cite this entry
APA

bizspeak. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bizspeak

MLA

“bizspeak.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bizspeak. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bizspeak,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bizspeak.

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