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The Top Ten Business Words to Know in 2001
- Brought to you by www.kaptest.com-

Kaptest.com business school experts* Kaplan?s online staff devoted to helping individuals get into school, succeed in school, and get started in their professional careers announce the top business words for the upcoming year.

Crock Options: When a dot-com offers stock options with a minimum strike price that is actually higher than the stock's current price on the open market.

dot-coma: A website with no visible signs of life: content is not updated; commerce and any other features requiring humans have been removed.

e-nnoyance: Vexation or irritation caused by the placement of "e" in front of every word.

Free Fall: What all those brilliant web sites that gave everything away for free are now doing.

Net Working: Using your internet connection at work to look for a new job.

Not com: Laid off from a dot com business.

TBD: That?s Been Dissolved.

The Great Potato Chip Famine: The ending of the free snacks - including potato chips - that used to be the rule among dot-com employers.

Toynoying: Someone who has too many toys (pens, Palms, phones, etc.) and flaunts them.

Wall Envy: New Economy employees who covet old economy offices instead of their ever smaller cubicle.

* Kaptest.com's 40+ employees competed to submit the best business words for 2001. The Top Ten is a result of that contest.

Due to the ever-changing nature of business today, these words change regularly. Find more and submit your own business lingo at www.kaptest.com/2001.