Global Language Monitor ranking of the most popular business terms is based on how many times the word was used, analyzing billions of pages on the Internet, social media, blogs, and the top 275,000 print and electronic global media sources. To be considered for the list, terms needed at least 25,000 citations across the world.
Here are the year’s most overused business words: (click below to read more)

1. Content
2. Social media
3. Sustainability
4. Transparency
5. Literally
6. Guru
7. Utilize/utilise
8. Robust
9. Ping
10. Big data
11. Nouns used as verbs (to concept, to ballpark, to impact)
12. Seamless
13. Moving forward
14. The cloud
15. Offline