modification

Intermediate 💼 Corporate / Business

Definition

A change so minor your stakeholders will debate whether it actually happened, or a significant alteration depending on who you ask and when the project launched.

Example Usage

We made a few modifications to the original proposal—only added three new modules and rewrote the entire backend.

Source: Common industry terminology

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