noun

PowerPoint

noun

An electronic slideshow presentation, especially one made with Microsoft's PowerPoint software.

"She put together a PowerPoint for the quarterly review."

"His PowerPoint was full of bullet points and no images."

verb

To present information using electronic slides.

"He PowerPointed his way through the entire budget proposal."

How to Use PowerPoint

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishA slideshow presentation, named after the software most commonly used to make one.

Common pairings

give a PowerPoint PowerPoint presentation PowerPoint slides

PowerPointed past tense, PowerPoints plural, powerpoints plural, PowerPoints singular

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She put together a _____ for the quarterly review.

From PowerPoint, the trademarked name of Microsoft's presentation software, which has become a generic term for any slideshow.

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