DON’T FORGET YOUR shovel if you want to go to work… in the construction industry.
A press release from the CIF (Construction Industry Federation) this week presented TheJournal.ie with a unfamiliar piece of jargon: “shovel ready”. The statement read:
Hundreds of shovel ready projects around the country could be given an immediate green light if the Government secures an agreement on an EU stimulus package, creating thousands of construction jobs according to the Construction Industry Federation (CIF).
It’s a term that is commonly used to those in the construction industry – a project that is “ready to start immediately”.
It got us to thinking about those buzzwords that are specific to certain jobs and sectors… but might not be so familiar to the rest of us:
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