Synergy
SIN-er-jeenoun
What it means
The word used to describe two departments being merged into one, in the version of the announcement that does not mention the redundancies.
What it actually means
Forty roles are becoming twenty-eight and the slide is green.
How it is used in a sentence
"We're realising real synergies across the merged function."
Filed under
Business Bafflegab — Language engineered so that nothing is ever anyone’s fault and no decision is ever final.
Euphemism — The phrase hides something specific. We decode it.
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