enron

enron
v.
When corporate executives mismanage a company for personal gain.

It was painful for Bill in engineering to sit back and watch the CEO and his biker-chick wife enron the company.

n.
1) Big corporation's views that they are above the law; also an alternate pronounciation of end run.

When it came time for financial disclosure, the big company tried to do an enron around the law.

Microsoft's trying to pull an Enron with its various state-by-state challenges to the proposed anti-trust settlment.
2) To shred important documents so that they will not be seen by anyone else.

1. I made sure I enroned my bank statement before I threw it in the trash.

2. You better enron that chick's phone number before your girlfriend sees it.


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