corporate jive

The brand of speech that the leaders of the corporate world frequently use in long, useless meetings about having other meetings, especially with regard to project and staff performance. Key works in the corporate jive language include hyphenated adjectives describing people, such as "highly- efficient," "self-starter," "goal-oreinted," and "power-user;" and non-commital descriptions of business performance such as "moderately optimistic," "below projected outlook," and "downtrend."

Despite the downtrend in the economy that has shown our revenues to be below the projected outlook, Vassal Company remains moderately optimistic about performance in the next quarter due to the highly efficient staff we have retained.

by Aristophenes October 13, 2004

corporationey

How corporations act according to Tim Robbins.

Tim Robbins: Let me explain to you how this works: you see, the corporations finance Team America, and then Team America goes out... and the corporations sit there in their... in their corporation buildings, and... and, and see, they're all corporationey... and they make money.

by rustyshackleford January 4, 2008

corporate ethics

Two words that don't seem to make sense together; large corporations can and often do use unethical means to gain public trust and their precious capital, for example, building big-box shopping malls on environmentally sensitive land where there may be endangered flora and fauna.

The corporate ethics of some of these food producers in Brazil leave a lot to be desired.

by pentozali October 2, 2010

climbing the corporate ladder

This pharse refers to moving up in rank within a particular field or business. If someone "climbs the corporate ladder" to the top, they started out at the bottom (stockboy, mail clerk, etc) and ended up at the top (CEO, CFO, vice pres., etc.)

Tim lived the American Dream. He started out as a desk clerk and climbed the corporate ladder to the top. He is now a CEO in the same field that he had started out in.

by Doobie Smokes You December 11, 2004

Jupiter Mining Corporation

A division of the Space Corps, established on Jupiter in the 23rd century. The 8-mile long mining ship Red Dwarf is operated by the JMC.

This is an SOS distress signal from the mining ship Red Dwarf...

by Sky Captain April 17, 2004

The corporate cock

The corporate cock is your boss, or bosses, within a corporate business context.

I hate the corporate cock. If it didn't pay so damn well I would shove this job up his ass.

by Jacques Asse June 17, 2009

corporate welfare

Use of the public treasury by government to fund private for profit enterprise.

Federal or state funding of medical research, such as that involving stem cells, which ultimately benefits new product development for profitable multinational pharmaceutical corporations.

by limit government November 15, 2004