"hunzone" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hun",
        "3": "zone",
        "t1": "a woman involved in an MLM"
      },
      "expansion": "hun (“a woman involved in an MLM”) + zone",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hun (“a woman involved in an MLM”) + zone, by analogy with friendzone.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hunzones",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hunzoning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hunzoned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hunzoned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hunzone (third-person singular simple present hunzones, present participle hunzoning, simple past and past participle hunzoned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 July 10, Jessica Lindsay, “Hunzoning is the trend that sees you going from friend to MLM recruit”, in Metro:",
          "text": "However, if the desire to join their business isn’t there, it can easily sever a new friendship there and then, leaving the hunzoned person feeling used.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Naomi L. Yanike, “Hunzoning: A Qualitative Study of Women’s Expectancy Violations Surrounding Multi-Level Marketing Message Strategies on Facebook”, in Dissertatations, University of Nebraska:",
          "text": "The study’s findings add to our understanding of women’s use of social media as well as existing MLM communication literature to qualify hunzoning as a computer-mediated-communication expectancy violation.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To contact an acquaintance or former friend on social media, with the intention of recruiting them to a multi-level marketing scheme."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "multi-level marketing",
          "multi-level marketing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, transitive) To contact an acquaintance or former friend on social media, with the intention of recruiting them to a multi-level marketing scheme."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hunzone"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hun",
        "3": "zone",
        "t1": "a woman involved in an MLM"
      },
      "expansion": "hun (“a woman involved in an MLM”) + zone",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hun (“a woman involved in an MLM”) + zone, by analogy with friendzone.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hunzones",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hunzoning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hunzoned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hunzoned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hunzone (third-person singular simple present hunzones, present participle hunzoning, simple past and past participle hunzoned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 July 10, Jessica Lindsay, “Hunzoning is the trend that sees you going from friend to MLM recruit”, in Metro:",
          "text": "However, if the desire to join their business isn’t there, it can easily sever a new friendship there and then, leaving the hunzoned person feeling used.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Naomi L. Yanike, “Hunzoning: A Qualitative Study of Women’s Expectancy Violations Surrounding Multi-Level Marketing Message Strategies on Facebook”, in Dissertatations, University of Nebraska:",
          "text": "The study’s findings add to our understanding of women’s use of social media as well as existing MLM communication literature to qualify hunzoning as a computer-mediated-communication expectancy violation.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To contact an acquaintance or former friend on social media, with the intention of recruiting them to a multi-level marketing scheme."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "multi-level marketing",
          "multi-level marketing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, transitive) To contact an acquaintance or former friend on social media, with the intention of recruiting them to a multi-level marketing scheme."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hunzone"
}