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empty-suit

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(plural empty suits)

  1. A person ineffective or incompetent in his/her position of authority. Derived from unfavorable observations that ineffective professionals are memorable only for what they wear and not what they accomplish at the workplace. [c. 1970]
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A derisive term for an anonymous business executive or bureaucrat lacking in both individuality and substance, i.e., a phony. Such a person is little more than a suit of clothes.As we used to say when I was a young man in Texas, such a person is all hat and no horse, i.e., a drugstore cowboy. A suit, especially an empty suit, is in sharp contrast to a techie. See also suit and techie.

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  • empty-space
  • empty-suits
  • undersuit
  • suit-and-tie
  • running-on-empty
  • empty-netter
  • separable controversy
  • empty-function
  • nonempty
  • empty-net-goal

WORDS NEAR empty-suit IN THE DICTIONARY


  • empty set
  • empty-set
  • empty-space
  • empty-spaces
  • empty-suit
  • empty-suits
  • empty-sum
  • empty-sums
  • empty-the-bench
  • empty-the-tank
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