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bearded excellence

The act of having an excellent or magnificent beard. Anyone who has a huge unkepmt beard despite what fashion dictates is practicing bearded excellence. This also goes for ungangly mustaches and bushy mutton chop sideburns.
Check out that hobo with the crazy bum beard; bearded excellence.
by Jeffy! May 9, 2005
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Center of Excellence

When a tech company outsources and offshores expensive jobs to a cheap 2nd or 3rd world labor location, they give that new place a lofty name, as if it's god's gift to their future success, while it generally displaces US or other western (expensive) workers.
They'll trade one a $100k/yr Java coder stateside for a half dozen Sanjeev's in the Center of Excellence in Bangalore.

The Center of Excellence contributes directly to shareholder value, i.e. executive bonuses.

The Center of Excellence is in Bangalore. That makes Austin the Center of Expensive Mediocrity.
by redshirt58 February 25, 2009
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excellence

Webster's Dictionary defines "excellence" as "the state or condition of being excellent."
by MasterPrime October 10, 2005
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unexcellence

A downtrodden feeling one gets from being around people who don't know or strive for excellence. Commonly felt in cities that lack soul such as Washington D.C.
I felt more and more unexcellence while riding the metro into D.C. I was exposed to too many people in sad sack suits that have visible signs of giving their souls to jobs they hate.
by voynich September 3, 2014
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A killing of a journalist for investigating something that they perhaps shouldn't have had, like a goverment operation or the practices of a larger company
Person 1: whatever happened to that guy that guy who uncovered that conspiracy with the CIA's involvement in the destabilization of Any country here

Person 1: He was awarded the CIA award for journalistic excellence and committed "suicide"
by Orsina August 22, 2022
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Excellence

A perfect example of newspeak, commonly found in the US federal government and frequently found in the same sentence as 'diversity'. Excellence is an intangible noun derived in recent decades from an adjective meaning anything that is not directly in opposition to a mission statement. Basically it is supposed to mean 'good-ness', but better than good, really good. But without any increase in quality of work to back it up. So it can be anything from poor to mediocre to decent to great to outstanding.

In all concrete reality, excellence means nothing, but you'll see it everywhere to describe everything.
"She has demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of excellence while serving her country during the difficult circumstances administering corrections at Abu Ghraib prison"

"At the Library of Congress we value diversity and excellence, while fostering a compassionate environment of professionals"

"Leadership excellence"

"An environment of excellence"

"Tools of excellence"
by DeskJockey1 May 19, 2010
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Black excellence

Someone that is black and portrays great qualities and abilities that make the black community proud
LJ is the perfect example of black excellence because he's going to Harvard!
by kyn4thewin January 3, 2017
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