consultantese
English edit
Etymology edit
consultant + -ese
Noun edit
consultantese (uncountable)
- Jargon or buzzwords used by consultants.
- 2003, Russell D. Lambert, Executive's Guide to the Wireless Workforce, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 24:
- The real problem is that the consultant is talking in broad, consultantese abstractions, [...]
- 1993, Jon R. Katzenbach, Douglas K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: creating the high-performance organization, Harvard Business School Press, →ISBN, page x:
- We never quite converted him to consultantese (thank goodness), but we did move him a little toward the center.
- 1974, Robert Kirk Mueller, Buzzwords: A Guide to the Language of Leadership, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., →ISBN, page 54:
- Consultantese for starting out on an assignment with little or no prior outline