reputation

taylor swift's best album

reputation is coming. 1989 who?

by officialts6 August 24, 2017

reput

To put again.

I had to reput the items back on the shelf after he moved them.

by hl2dmnutz May 18, 2010

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

Reputincan

An American conservative who not only relies on but welcomes foreign interference in a democratic society.

When Donald J. Trump asked Russia to find Hillary’s e-mails he became the first Reputincan in American history.

by Johnny Donut February 15, 2019

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

Reputational laundering

When Betsy DeVos, Mick Mulvaney, and Elaine Chao say they are leaving the Trump Administration because they have principles, but we all know it’s less than two weeks before they would be out of their jobs anyway and they just want to save their social standing and careers in the future. Plus, they have no principles or integrity.

These reputational laundering attempts coming out in the final hours of the Trump White House are fooling no one.

by 45 exits the building January 9, 2021