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Definition of rank-and-yank
rank-and-yank
adjective
- a corporate performance review system in which employees are ranked in their performance, and the bottom-performing employees are terminated.
- See more words with the same meaning: business (related to).
Last edited on Nov 10 2015. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 10 2015.
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Other terms relating to 'business (related to)': | |
| Definitions include: an unenthusiastic worker, especially in an office setting. | |
| Definitions include: speech commonly found in corporations, often filled with buzzwords, jargon, and "verbed" nouns. | |
| Definitions include: pejorative alteration of "venture capitalist". | |
| Definitions include: a meeting. | |
| Definitions include: shortened form of "business." | |
| Definitions include: conventionally. | |
| Definitions include: the main source of income for a business. | |
| Definitions include: a couch on which prospective employees are expected to provide sexual favors in order to secure the position. | |
| Definitions include: without any clothing covering the torso. | |
| Definitions include: According to Oxford University Press Blog: | |
| Definitions include: of an entire task, the easy portions. | |
| Definitions include: an organization. | |
| Definitions include: a person who provides illegal drugs. | |
| Definitions include: the "Target" retailer. | |
| Definitions include: press conference. | |
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Other terms relating to 'and': | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "assault and battery". | |
| Definitions include: "rain". | |
| Definitions include: Cockney rhyme for ''believe''. | |
| Definitions include: to talk a lot but never take action. | |
| Definitions include: clumsy. | |
| Definitions include: better than all that. | |
| Definitions include: the best. | |
| Definitions include: without substance; all talk and no action. | |
| Definitions include: a lot of money. | |
| Definitions include: to get fouled in basketball and make the basket | |
| Definitions include: used to indicate an extreme condition or an excessive amount. | |
| Definitions include: et cetera. | |
| Definitions include: used to indicate an extreme condition or an excessive amount. | |
| Definitions include: a quantity between 1 and one order of magnitude lower than the quantity previously mentioned. | |
| Definitions include: interjection of agreement. | |
Other terms relating to 'rank': | |
| Definitions include: to join together for a common cause. | |
| Definitions include: to use one's authority to win a disagreement. | |
| Definitions include: awful-smelling. | |
| Definitions include: low-level employees. | |
| Definitions include: (adj.) 1. a form of the word 'really' 2. see: cool, sweet. | |
| Definitions include: make jokes such as snaps ex yo mamma so... | |
| Definitions include: so bad | |
Other terms relating to 'yank': | |
| Definitions include: A synonym for American, often used in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. | |
| Definitions include: to masturbate. | |
| Definitions include: to deceive a person, usually in a playful manner. | |
| Definitions include: to try to deceive in a playful manner (same as 'pulling one's leg') | |
| Definitions include: to deceive a person, usually in a kidding manner. | |
| Definitions include: masturbate. | |
| Definitions include: to joke or kid; "pull (one's) leg". | |
| Definitions include: to masturbate. | |
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