marketroid

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Perhaps from marketer +‎ -oid or droid.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

marketroid (plural marketroids)

  1. (slang, derogatory) A person who works in marketing, especially one who is ignorant and relies on buzzwords and deception.
    • 2002, Gardner Dozois, Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future:
      […] identically dressed in blue three-piece suits, hung around accosting visitors with annoyingly impenetrable PHB marketroid jargon […]
    • 2007, Charles Stross, Halting State:
      […] some weedy intense-looking marketroid in casual-Friday drag and fashionable specs who seemed most upset about something.
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