marketroid
English edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps from marketer + -oid or droid.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
marketroid (plural marketroids)
- (slang, derogatory) A person who works in marketing, especially one who is ignorant and relies on buzzwords and deception.
- 2002, Gardner Dozois, Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future:
- […] identically dressed in blue three-piece suits, hung around accosting visitors with annoyingly impenetrable PHB marketroid jargon […]
- 2007, Charles Stross, Halting State:
- […] some weedy intense-looking marketroid in casual-Friday drag and fashionable specs who seemed most upset about something.