As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Goizueta Business School, the business librarians thought it might be fun to explore the evolution of business terminology between 1919 and 2019. So each month we will post a blog identifying business words and concepts that were captured in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for the decades that GBS has been in operation. Here is our third entry, business-speak from 1939-1948!
1939 antipersonnel / bailout / for-profit / impactful / subeconomy / trouser suit
1940 assigned risk / groundbreaker / nonbanking / underinvestment / withholding tax
1941 conference call / game plan / middle management / task force / top-down / update
1942 cost-benefit / equity capital / interfacing / storyboard / superachiever
1943 back burner / proportional tax / seed money / severance pay / venture capital / work stoppage
1944 after-tax / cutthroat contract / debrief / economy of scale / mandated / zero-sum
1945 disinvest / job-hopping / nontarget / profit system / work ethic
1946 buzzword / megabuck / promo
1947 fair-trade
1948 assistantship / defund / under-the-table