high-touch adj. involving personal, face-to-face attention or service, especially in interactions between a business and a customer. Also as a noun. Editorial Note: Often juxtaposed with “high-tech.” Etymological Note: This term was...
flight to cash n.— «Last week, investors fled even the safest of all bond investments, the US treasury long bond, in a flight to cash.» —“Business: The Economy; Corporate bonds bomb” BBC News (United Kingdom) Oct...
bring back n.— «Bring Back: a sandwich purchased on the return leg of legitimate business.» —“Revealed: how to chat up a senior clerk” by Nina Goswami TheLawyer.com July 13, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued...
bluebird n.— «In exchange for this “bluebird”—a sale that flies in the window—I said I’d have to have access to a 3000.» —by Sandra L. Kurtzig, Tom Parker CEO: Building a $400 Million Company from the Ground...
bluebird n. in business, an unexpected, very profitable, or easily made sale. Etymological Note: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “bluebird” connoting “happiness” dates to at least as early as 1909. (source: Double...
bluebird n.— «That actually was a bit of a blue bird, I’d have to say.…They had actually as a customer been dormant for some time. And then apparently their business must have started picking up because all of a sudden they came...