Meanings
nounconsultantese (uncountable)
- uncountableJargon or buzzwords used by consultants.
Consultantese for starting out on an assignment with little or no prior outline
1974, Robert Kirk Mueller, Buzzwords: A Guide to the Language of Leadership, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., →ISBN, page 542 more examples
The real problem is that the consultant is talking in broad, consultantese abstractions, [...]
2003, Russell D. Lambert, Executive's Guide to the Wireless Workforce, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 24We never quite converted him to consultantese (thank goodness), but we did move him a little toward the center.
1993, Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: creating the high-performance organization, Harvard Business School Press, →ISBN, page x
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