Here's a glossary of 70 construction terms and definitions to help you communicate more effectively in your construction job: 20 terms for construction materials and tools In this article, we provide a list of 141 common construction terms, including definitions of 70 key concepts. If you work in this industry, knowing the definitions of common concepts can help you communicate more effectively with your coworkers, supervisors and clients. Improving your communication skills can also help you enhance your relationships at work, which may help advance your construction career. Quote unquote: An utterly useless phrase, unless you sandwich the words that you're quoting BETWEEN, and not after, the verbal quote marks.There are many terms related to construction, ranging from the names of building materials to legal terms. Onboarding: someone take the new kid out for a sandwich, for god's sake Non-hierarchical: everyone's a potential scapegoat Innovation: what we'd better be doing while we're playing battleships and snipping herbs from the office 'living wall' on company time IM (instant messaging): silent social skills killer Ideate: if you use this word, sit in the corner and think about what you've become Going forward: another way of saying 'in future' or 'from now on', because the two existing phrases weren't good enough (Tip: destroy the intellectual competition by using 'henceforth')
But the coffee's from Botswana and sometimes I talk to the receptionist.Įmployee benefits: care about me as much as I do and I might stay longer "Could you please cascade this message to your teams?" = send / share / forwardĬollaboration: when the good carry the bad, and everyone gets the creditĬo-working: working from home was lonely, so now I'm paying £450 a month to be ignored here in Knightsbridge instead. Here's Tartle Media's useful corporate dictionary for those baffled by business speak.Īll hands: sounds like grounds for a tribunal, but merely a company-wide meeting, where the CEO overshares and energy levels seem (to the jaded) disturbingly highīleeding edge: because some bright spark thought 'cutting edge' wasn't cutting itīlue sky thinking: the conjuring of ideas that are both completely out of touch with reality and utterly impractical, thus almost certainly a waste of everyone's timeīYOD (bring your own device): no, your company won't be buying you a £779 iPhone XSĬascade: e.g. Yet there's nothing more irksome than jargon, particularly when English is rich with synonyms that already do the job.
When it comes to language, I'm far from prescriptive.
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