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(FORTUNE Small Business) – inarticulateness / incarnate 487 inattentional blindness /in'-a-ten'-shen nel blind'-ness/ n. 1. The tendency not to see objects when the brain is otherwise occupied. 2. The reason no one will feel sorry for you when you crash your car while carrying on a conference call on your hands-free cellular phone.

off-hour / ohm 556 offshoring /of'-shor-ing/ n. The act of moving business functions overseas to take advantage of cheaper labor costs. (This definition provided by the South Asia Dictionary & Thesaurus Co.)

songsmith / soul 777 social software /so'-shel soft'-war/ n. A blanket term for online network sites like friendster.com, inwyk.com, and myspace.com. Sample usage: "John promised he'd never get suckered into investing in an Internet company again, until he heard about social software."