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whateveracct
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Dropbox handing over 25% of San Francisco HQ back ...
Using nouns as verbs and verbs as nouns a la "de-cost" is classic corporate nonsense.
"What's the solve" etc
cdelsolar
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Both and "cost" and "de-cost" are verbs.
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I think here it’s taking the noun meaning of cost and endeavouring to re-verb it, if you will.
Reduce costs, would be the clearer way to put it.
whateveracct
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but the way it's used here is clearly noun-as-verb
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