List of buzzwords

This is a list of common buzzwords which form part of the jargon of corporate, academic, government, and everyday work and social environments, as well as by writers and public speakers.

General conversation

• Alignment[1]
• Amplify
• Artisan/artisanal
• At the end of the day[1]
• Break through the clutter[2]
• Bring to the table[3]
• Buzzword[2]
• Clear goal[4]
• Disruptive innovation[5]
• Diversity[6]
• Emotional intelligence (EQ)
• Empowerment
• Exit strategy
• Face time
• Generation X[1]
• Globalization[7]
• Going forward (instead of "in the future" or "from now on")[8]
• Grow[9] – as in "grow the business".
• Headlights – to gain visibility into
• Heavy lifting
• Holistic approach
• Impact[9] – instead of effect as a noun
• Leverage[2] – used as verb to mean magnify, multiply, augment, or increase.
• Millennial[1]
• Lateral Violence
• Mind share
• Moving forward
• Mouthfeel
• Fleet Dynamism
• New normal[10]
• On the runway[1]
• Optics
• Organic growth[2]
• Paradigm[11]
• Paradigm shift[2][12]
• Patriarchy
• Proactive[9][11]
• Push the envelope
• Reimagine
• Resonate
• Roadmap
• Robust
• Reach out[13][14] – as in "I'll reach out to sales to get the latest figures".
• Rustic
• Sea change[2]
• Sisterhood[15]
• Spin-up
• Strategic Communication (also known as "Stratcom")
• Streamline[2]
• Survival strategy[1]
• Sustainability
• Synergy[2][9][11]
• Think outside the box[1][9]
• Unpack (as in "Let me unpack that statement.")
• Value add
• Warfighter[16]
• Wellness[17]
• Wheelhouse (as in "That's in my wheelhouse.")[18]
• Win-win[1]

Education

• Accountable talk[19]
• Higher-order thinking[20]
• Invested in
• Run like a business[21]
• Student engagement[22][23][24]
• Common Core
• Bloom's Taxonomy
• Differentiated instruction
• Digital Literacy
• Flipped Classroom
• Guided Reading
• Instructional Scaffolding
• Multiple Intelligences
• Project-Based Learning

Business, sales and marketing

• Analytics[25]
• Ballpark figure
• Bandwidth[1]
• Business-to-Business – also known as B2B.
• Business-to-Consumer – also known as B2C.
• Best of Breed
• Best practices
• Bizmeth[26] – portmanteau of "business method".
• Brick-and-mortar[12]
• Business process outsourcing[27][28] – also known as BPO.
• Buzzword compliant[29]
• Building capabilities/Capability building
• Cadence
• Client-centric
• Close the loop
• Co-opetition[30]
• Come-to-Jesus moment[31]
• Content marketing
• Core competency[32]
• Creative
• Customer-centric(also customer-centric mindset)
• Downsizing
• Drill down [33]
• Drinking the Kool-Aid –trusting in things offered by authority figures
• Early-stage[34]
• Employer branding
• Eating your own dogfood[26] – use a product yourself which you sell to others.
• Enable[35]
• Entitlement
• Evangelist
• Event horizon[36]
• Eyeballs[12]
• ____-free, as in cholesterol-free seaweed or gluten-free eggs, lacking some putatively harmful substance that it never contained in the first place.
• Free value[2]
• Fulfilment issues[26]
• Generation Y
• Herding cats
• Holistic (approach/integration)[37]
• Home real estate usage for an unoccupied dwelling unit
• Hyperlocal[38]
• Innovation[39]
• Innovative
• Knowledge Process Outsourcing[27] – also known as KPO.
• Leverage
• Logistics[40] – Now commonly used for shipping, and shipping companies
• Long Tail[41]
• Low Hanging Fruit[2][42]
• Make it pop[2]
• Mindshare[12]
• Mission Critical[12]
• Management Visibility[12]
• New economy[12]
• Next generation[26]
• Offshoring[36] – also known as Offshore outsourcing, or something being offshorable.
• One Team [43]
• Opportunities
• Pain point[14][44]
• Paralysis by Analysis
• Passionate[45]
• Privacy[46][47]
• Productivity
• Profit center
• Quick win
• Return on Investment[2] – also known as ROI.
• Reverse fulfilment[26] – processing returned products.
• Rightshoring[48]
• Seamless (integration)[49]
• Serum
• Share options[26]
• Solution[1]
• SOX[50] – abbreviation of Sarbanes-Oxley.
• Sustainability[51]
• Storytelling
• Startup
• Take Offline[33]
• Talent Relationship Management
• Tiger team
• Time-Blindness
• Touchpoint
• Value-added[1]
• Visibility[36]
• Water under the bridge [52]
• Work smarter

Science and technology

• 4G[50]
• 5G[53]
• Agile
• Ajax[50]
• Algorithm[54]
• Andon
• API
• Benchmarking[55]
• Back-end[26]
• Beta
• Big data – larger data sets than last month [56]
• Bio-
• Bleeding edge[26]
• Blockchain[57]
• Bring your own Device – use of personal equipment (usually mobile) in a work environment
• Bricks-and-clicks[26][26]
• Clickthrough[26]
• Cloud-computing
• Collaboration[58]
• Content management[58]
• Content Management System[59] – also known as CMS.
• Convergence[60]
• Cross-platform[26]
• CSS3
• Cyber-physical Systems (CPS)
• Datafication[61]
• Data mining[62] – any kind of data collection or analysis, even simple statistics such as taking averages on large data sets
• Data science[63]
• Deep dive[14]
• Deep learning[64]
• Deep web[65] – used interchangeably with "Dark web" even though they're not the same
• Design pattern[66]
• DevOps[67]
• Digital divide[59]
• Digital Remastering
• Digital Rights Management– also known as DRM.
• Digital signage
• Disruptive Technologies[68]
• Document management[58]
• Dot-bomb[12][26]
• ____-Driven Development[69]
• E-learning[70]
• Eco- (related to economy or environment-friendly, incorrectly called "ecological")
• End-to-end
• Engine[71] - most often in reference to physics engine
• Enterprise Content Management[59] – also known as ECM.
• Enterprise Service Bus[72] – also known as ESB.
• Ephemeral Rogue Entity
• Framework
• Frictionless (software development)
• Front-end
• Folksonomy[59]
• Fuzzy logic[73]
• Growth Hacking
• HTML5
• IaaS
• Ideation Management[74]
• Immersion[75]
• Information superhighway / Information highway
• Internet of Things[76]
• JavaScript[77]
• Lambda
• Machine Learning
• Mashup
• Microservices
• Mobile[78]
• Modularity[79][80]
• Nanotechnology[81]
• Netiquette[59]
• Next Generation[75] (also "NextGen")
• Open source
• Quantum supremacy[82]
• PaaS
• Podcasting[50][59]
• Real-time[59]
• Responsive Web Design
• Sensorization[83]
• SaaS[50]
• Scalability[84][85]
• Skeuomorphic
• Social bookmarking[50]
• Social software[59]
• SDN- Software defined Networking
• SPA
• Single Pane-of-Glass
• Spam[59]
• Stack
• Strategic Ineptness
• Sync-up[12]
• Systems Development Life-Cycle
• Tagging[59]
• Transmedia[86]
• Toolchain
• UC – Unified Communications
• User generated content[87]
• Viral
• Virtualization[50]
• Vortal[88]
• Web 2.0[50][59]
• Webinar[26][59]
• Web services[58]
• Wikiality
• Workflow[58][89]

Politics and current affairs

• Big society
• Coward
• Fit for purpose[90]
• Information society
• National security
• Political capital[91]
• Solidarity
• Stakeholder[92]
• Establishment[93]

Other

• Antifragile[94]
• Best-in-class

See also

• Buzzword bingo
• Cant (language)
• Shibboleth
• Stunt word
• Weasel word

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External links

• Investopedia's List of Buzz Words