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the polite word teams use instead of losing on purpose.
means a stated strategy of accepting short-term failure to accumulate assets for long-term success.
from popularized in american pro sports front offices, where owners needed a term less brutal than tanking to sell losing seasons to fans and sponsors.
sports originbaseball and basketball GMs coined it defensively
tanking overlapoften indistinguishable from losing on purpose
corporate exportnow used for layoffs disguised as strategy
timeline elasticcan last one season or a decade