marketroid

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noun

A person who works in marketing, especially one who is ignorant and relies on buzzwords and deception.

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Meanings

nounmarketroid (plural marketroids)

plural marketroids

  1. derogatoryslangA person who works in marketing, especially one who is ignorant and relies on buzzwords and deception.

    […] some weedy intense-looking marketroid in casual-Friday drag and fashionable specs who seemed most upset about something.

    2007, Charles Stross, Halting State
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    […] identically dressed in blue three-piece suits, hung around accosting visitors with annoyingly impenetrable PHB marketroid jargon […]

    2002, Gardner Dozois, Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future

Origin

Perhaps from marketer + -oid or droid.

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APA

marketroid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/marketroid

MLA

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Chicago

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