noun
Enron
noun
1
By extension, a major corporate collapse caused by accounting fraud, or the fraud itself, named after the American energy company Enron.
"Critics worried the startup's creative accounting could turn into another Enron."
How to Use Enron
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishUsed as shorthand for a huge corporate fraud scandal, referencing the real 2001 Enron collapse.
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Etymology
From Enron Corporation, the American energy company whose 2001 collapse over accounting fraud became a byword for corporate scandal.