1. Decruited, adj. To be fired from a position one has not even started yet.
2. Permatemp, n. The condition of being permanently employed as a temporary worker.
3. Povo, adj. A two-syllable "abbreviation" for poor, often with a mocking or self-defacing tone that lacks any serious derision or the class implications associated with "poor" or "poverty."
4. Mancession, n. A recession, such as this, which hits men harder than women.
5. Recessionista, n. A consumer who has historically paid big bucks to look like a million bucks and who, unwilling to quit his/her fashion habit in the face of the recession, has found alternative ways to maintain a certain standard of wardrobe.
6. Madoff’d, v. To get ripped off in a particularly offensive fashion.
7. Intaxication, n. A sense of delight mingled with the perception of instant wealth that one feels upon receiving a tax refund.
8. Staycation, n. Vacationing at home or near home because traveling further would be prohibitively expensive.
9. Insource, v. To do oneself what one previously paid others to do.
10. Funemployment, n. The practice of enjoying one's unemployment.
Here's the link to the Christian Science Monitor: Recession Slang: 10 New Terms for a New Economy.
