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Hard Stop
hard stopnoun
What it means
The moment a meeting must end, disclosed forty minutes in and treated by everyone as an act of God rather than a calendar.
What it actually means
I have somewhere better to be, and you are hearing about it now.
How it is used in a sentence
"I've got a hard stop at half past, so let's keep this tight."
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Business Bafflegab — Language engineered so that nothing is ever anyone’s fault and no decision is ever final.
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A ninety-minute examination of a question that was answered in the first four, attended by eleven people, ending in a request for another meeting.
Real meaningThe answer was in the first four minutes. This is what we did instead.