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    The document defines various business and finance jargon terms, including: doing nothing, a zombie project, zero-zero split, yogurt cities, yuppy food stamps, three-martini lunch, took a bath, two-comma, and mucus trooper. The terms refer to things like wasting time, perpetual projects, using company resources for personal reasons, expensive business meals, significant financial losses, large contracts, and coming into work while sick.

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    The document defines various business and finance jargon terms, including: doing nothing, a zombie project, zero-zero split, yogurt cities, yuppy food stamps, three-martini lunch, took a bath, two-comma, and mucus trooper. The terms refer to things like wasting time, perpetual projects, using company resources for personal reasons, expensive business meals, significant financial losses, large contracts, and coming into work while sick.

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    Mahip Singh Pathania
    The document defines various business and finance jargon terms, including: doing nothing, a zombie project, zero-zero split, yogurt cities, yuppy food stamps, three-martini lunch, took a bath, two-comma, and mucus trooper. The terms refer to things like wasting time, perpetual projects, using company resources for personal reasons, expensive business meals, significant financial losses, large contracts, and coming into work while sick.

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    1. Zero tasking 2.

    Zombie project

    3. Zero-zero split

    4. Yogurt cities

    5. Yuppy food stamps 6. Xerox subsidy

    Doing nothing. A project that keeps coming back to life no matter how many times that it's terminated. The opportunity to waste time when working on two projects simultaneously by telling one boss that you're busy with the other. Places that have an 'active culture', meaning a large number of museums, theatres, art galleries, etc. Fresh $20 bills from the ATM The practice of using the

    7. Three-martini lunch

    8. Took a bath

    9. Two-comma

    10. Mucus trooper (Jargon of the Year, 2012)

    company's photocopier, printer, or fax machine for personal reasons. A business meal with multiple alcoholic drinks. Can be used to 'encourage' a prospective client. A really slick way of saying that a lot of money was lost. "We really took a bath after 9/11." Anything that costs over 1,000,000. "We just landed a two-comma contract this morning." Your colleague that always gets the worst colds, yet still makes it in to work to cough it all over you.

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