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DEFINITION: v. To propose and win approval for cost-saving reforms, which when implemented result in the immediate elimination of your job. n. An ambitious budget-slasher who accidentally cuts themselves out of a job.
Verboticisms
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Selfaxuate
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: SELF+AX+actUATE
Sentence: I had a sneeking feeling I might be cutting my own throat, and when the pat on the back turned into a handshake goodbye, I knew I had selfaxuated.
Etymology: SELF+AX+actUATE
Elemmingnation
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eeeee lemm ing nayshun
Sentence: He wanted so much to please Cliff, he designed his own elemmingnation. wjhy, oh why did he have to be so head over heels over cliff?
Etymology: elimination lemming
Joligeter
Created by: saazgee
Pronunciation: jo-li-ge-tar
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Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
jo -from job li -from implemented get -from budget er -from slasher - saazgee, 2013-05-10: 04:23:00
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Economicalemming
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eek oh nomm ik ah lemm ing
Sentence: Through his can-do attitude and brownnosing qualities Dave unwittingly became the sacrificial economicalemming in the financial department, under the new style of bleedership that prevailed since Ms Badger was promoted to head of Department. The same Ms. Badger that he had criticised for her overuse of whiteboard markers because of her over embellished writing style.
Etymology: economical lemming.
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COMMENTS:
do they work at the zoo? funny sentence - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-27: 10:20:00
Seems like she ratted on him. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-27: 20:21:00
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Slashcident
Created by: robcrow
Pronunciation: Slash-sid-dint
Sentence: As he spoke to the Board of Directors about his new cost cutting proposal James realised he may have had a slashcident. It was confirmed that he slashcidised himself when a board member commented, "Well, everyone in that division is now redundant".
Etymology: slash (representing cost slashing) + cident (representing accident).
Amazicution
Created by: jellybean09
Pronunciation: a-mae-zi-que-tion
Sentence: Jelly bean and LolliPOP come together to create an amazicution of a relationship.
Etymology:
Cosdefective
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Coz-dee-fect-iv
Sentence: Brian was feeling really smug about his novel cost-cutting plan for the company,until he realised he had made himself cosdefective when the boss handed him his redundency notice.
Etymology: Cost(the price necessary to achieve something)(From old French,Couster ) + defective(no longer useful or viable) = Cosdefective (Opp of Cost-effective)
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COMMENTS:
love it - galwaywegian, 2008-05-27: 09:00:00
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-27: 10:27:00
Very good word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-27: 20:17:00
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Hegonomiser
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: he gawn o myzer
Sentence: Laurence was hired to curb the fiscal waste in his company. He made many enemies of his co-workers, who were used to spending their expenses like drunk sailors on shore leave. After the bloodshed of laying off so many employees, Laurence, too, found himself unemployed. The Hitman was Hit. The Terminator was terminated. The Economiser became the Hegonomiser and once again he'd have to tell his wife of his redumbdant status.
Etymology: Economiser (a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste) & He gone (as in terminated from a job, no longer employed) & Miser (thrifty, hoarder,stingy)
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COMMENTS:
excellent word. -\"redumbdant\" is another good one! - splendiction, 2009-07-08: 23:30:00
Cheers,splendiction, and his remaining co-workers reckon hew is a hegonomissed! - Nosila, 2009-07-09: 01:10:00
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Karmaudit
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: car-mah-dit
Sentence: If Ken knew that he was doing a karmaudit trying to be a suck-up, he would not have been so evil to the coworkers whose jobs he gleefully sacrificed to the money gods. In the words of the great Allen Toussaint,"the same dudes you misuse on your way up - you might meet up on your way down."
Etymology: karma: (Hinduism & Buddhism) the belief that ones actions determine ones fate + audit: inspection of business accounts and records
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COMMENTS:
The fickle finger of fate... - Nosila, 2009-07-08: 13:23:00
nice word - Jabberwocky, 2009-07-08: 14:50:00
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Discomjobulation
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: dis - com - job - yew - lai - shun
Sentence: Yancey was a thoroughly devoted and ambitious young junior executive and he suffered a major bout of discomjobulation when his innovative and brilliant proposals resulted in his own termination.
Etymology: Play on the word 'discombobulation'.
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COMMENTS:
great word!! - TJayzz, 2008-05-27: 12:55:00
love saying this one - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-27: 10:15:00
a real word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-27: 20:18:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Mustang. Thank you Mustang. ~ James
Jabberwocky - 2008-05-27: 10:27:00
so many good words today
Today's definition was suggested by Mustang. Thank you Mustang. ~ James