TPS report

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An abstract item of corporate bureaucracy. informal
    — Bill Lumbergh: Hello, Peter. What's happening? Ah, we have sort of a problem here. Yeaaah, you apparently didn't put one of the new cover sheets on your TPS reports? Peter Gibbons: Oh, yeah, I'm sorry about that. I forgot. Bill: Mmmh, yeah. You see, we're putting the cover sheets on all TPS reports now before they go out. Did you see the memo about this? Peter: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I have the memo right here. I just forgot. But it's not shipping out 'til tomorrow so there's no problem. Bill: Yeaaah. If you could just go ahead and make sure you do that from now on, that would be great. And I'll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo. M'kay? Peter: Yeah, no, no, no, I have... [Bill walks off.]

词形变化

TPS reports plural

词源

Coined as a reference to the 1999 film Office Space, written by Mike Judge, who later claimed the initialism stood for "Test Program Set".
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