drone
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7.6
- noun
- /droʊn/
- Offensive
:
zángano
- He is often seen as a drone in meetings, taking longer to get to the point than anyone else.
- an office drone
- mindless drones
- a corporate drone
But there's a term where if the person is really like just oh, we call them drones, bots, drones, bots.
- But there's a term where if the person is really like just oh, we call them drones, bots, drones, bots.
- Figure out another way to let people know about it without without taking no as an answer or without being an obnoxious drone.
- That's it does what we had told him to do, but the drone does not have the freedom to decide.
- OK, that's oh, poor drone yeah yeah, A little more work before this is going to be ready.
Examples
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What a bunch of corporate drones.
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Then you yourself are a drone.
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So just stop being a drone and use your brain.
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By the way, Rice is typical of the drones who work in this administration.
Blog text (4) -
The man was a drone, a perfectionist, a workaholic.
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We see the elite doing their fabulous things and everyone else as powerless drones.
Academic text (2009) -
Maybe I don't have to be a card-carrying corporate drone like Dad after all, another ant in the ant farm.
Fiction book (1998) -
You don't want to just be a drone stamping things they can take out, dealing with customers that you can't stand or bosses that you can't stand.
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See, from ’02 to '05, I was a mid-level drone at MBI.
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As a drone, she preferred to follow the crowd rather than take initiative on her own.
Synonyms
8
4.6
A person who often puts off work until the last minute
5
5.8
A person who avoids work and does very little
1
8.1
A person who falls behind others because they are slower
1
6.5
A person who works slowly and steadily without much energy or imagination
1
8.6
A person who moves slowly and falls behind others
1
7.9
Slow to act or move, causing delay
1
8.4
A person who takes a long time to do things and makes others wait
1
7.1
A person who moves slowly and wastes time
1
8.9
A person who spends time doing small, unimportant jobs like fixing things in a garden
A person who wastes time by being slow to act or decide
A person who is often lazy and late finishing tasks
A person who wastes time on small unimportant tasks instead of doing useful work
Antonyms
Compounds
How Lazy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Drone for a lazy person comes from the bee meaning: a male bee called drān did little work in the hive. So calling someone a drone shows that the person does very little or avoids work.