What word does McDonald's require to be removed from English dictionaries? Detailed answer

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What word does McDonald's require to be removed from English dictionaries?

For a low-paid and low-prestige job without much career prospects in English, there is the term McJob ("makjob"). The word is listed in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and also in the Oxford English Dictionary. Several public petitions from McDonald's to their publishers asking them to remove the word have been rebuffed, as the dictionaries are only meant to record the established state of affairs in the language.

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