Today’s “Word of the Day” is zeitgeist and it is a noun meaning “the general beliefs, ideas, and spirit of a particular time and place; It is the leading set of ideals or beliefs that cause people to act during a certain time; from German – zeit means “time” and geist means “spirit”; climate, outlook, spirit, trend, ambience, atmosphere, feeling, flavour, inclination, movement, tendency, tenor, tone..
Example Sentence: There are a lot of reasons why Mark Zuckerberg felt he had no choice but to institute a bruising wave of 11,000 redundancies (layoffs/sackings) at Meta… As lockdowns lifted and in-person socialisation returned, Meta’s revenues contracted, leaving the company, with almost 90,000 employees, financially exposed. There were other reasons offered by Zuckerberg for the job losses. Zuckerberg did not name the rivals eating Facebook’s lunch. But it’s clear he was referring to competition from TikTok, a trendy app stealing users and dominating the zeitgeist, and a change of policy at Apple…
This word is present in The Guardian article Why Mark Zuckerberg had to announce 11,000 job cuts at Meta and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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