recitation

A class where smaller groups from the lecture meet separately with a TA to discuss class concepts from the lectures, work on worksheets, etc.

My chem lecture is on Monday and Wednesday, and the recitation meets on Thursday.

by urbster1 January 12, 2006

reputation era

After ppl throw shit at someone or hate them they come back back like a strong bad bitch

Alice just got a bunch of shit I think she might enter her reputation era

by Sucker for women thighs June 30, 2021

reputation

taylor swift's best album

reputation is coming. 1989 who?

by officialts6 August 24, 2017

reputation era

Taken from Taylor Swift’s “reputation”; the era of your life where after everyone hates u you disappear and return with the most badass comeback

Did you hear about Soojin’s new instagram post?

Omggg she’s in her reputation era

by JangLOVE July 23, 2023

reputational laundering

Reputational laundering - the act of appearing to do good publicly in order to offset a negative image. A technique usually employed by individuals or corporations who have made their money in a morally questionable fashion and who wish to appear to have a moral conscience.

Reputational laundering often comes in the form of Corporate Social Responsibility, where a relatively trivial sum of profits are donated by the corporation to fund socially oriented activities in order to suggest that the corporation is socially responsible.

An example, often sited, would be major oil companies giving charitable funds to communities in the Nigeria Delta whose original livelihoods they were implicit in destroying through the extraction of crude oil.

However the practice of reputational laundering is by no means exclusive to corporations. Many morally bankrupt individuals donate money to charity in order that they are seen to care about social or environmental issues. As an added benefit to their undeservedly improved public image they also enjoy significant tax breaks on their donations.

Given that it has just paid record fines for insider trading, PJ Gorman’s effort to support a youth programme in the inner city is little more than reputational laundering.

by katrinmacmillan May 11, 2016

reputation

Character as seen or judged by others - can apply to an individual or an organization.

"With enough courage, you can do without a reputation."

-- Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind

by Atlanta's Burning March 1, 2011

regulation hottie

Someone who has the looks/features to be hot but isn't "noticed" yet.

"That new chick is a regulation hottie."

by Nina Sakura March 30, 2009