Generation Zed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The next virus may be devastating to their PC's, but Generation Zed needs to develop a vision of their destiny.
ref: 2004, Joyce Anderson, “Educating generation Zzz ...”, in Phi Kappa Phi Forum, volume 84, number 4:
text: Anabel shrugs. ‘Then take an earlier flight today so you get to see her at the airport, stupid.’ He shakes his head. ‘How bloody disrespectful is generation zed?’
ref: 2010, Melina Marchetta, The Piper’s Son, Viking, →ISBN, page 320:
text: Generation Zed, today’s new learners, are also the most technologically literate and socially empowered generation of children ever.
ref: 2011, Mark McCrindle, Emily Wolfinger, The ABC of XYZ: Understanding the Global Generations, University of New South Wales Press, →ISBN, page 106:
text: Emulating the Smurfs and wearing an oversized sock on your head does seem pretty small beer next to the seven pounds of ironmongery adorning a young woman’s otherwise pretty face I saw recently, or the slew of tattoo-fetishists from Generation Zed who will be figuring out which laser specialist to enrich a few years down the road. But who am I to talk? I just need to check out some photos from the 1970s to humble up, and I wasn’t even into disco!
ref: 2012 February 18, Bruce Chrumka, “Smurfish”, in Calgary Herald, page A25:
text: As a playwright she has won the Nick Darke award for her script Paradise (an environmental play) and the Generation Zed play-writing competition for a script idea for the Pilot Theatre to be developed for young people (11–15 year olds).
ref: 2013, Margaret Rogerson, “Medieval Mystery Plays in the Modern World: A Question of Relevance?”, in The Yearbook of English Studies, volume 43, Modern Humanities Research Association, pages 343–366:
text: A major contributor to the worsening mental health of Zeds [Generation Zed broadly encompasses young people 17 and under] is less support from families, with fewer functioning adults around and a lessened sense of community. — Professor Ian Hickie, executive director of the Brain and Mind Institute, University of Sydney (The Sun Herald, April 13th 2008).
ref: 2014, Maggie Dent, 9 Things: A Back-to-Basics Guide to Calm, Common-Sense, Connected Parenting Birth-8, Pennington Publications, →ISBN:
text: “Thinks she’s hot shit. What is she, 28?” “Generation Zed.”
ref: 2015, Steve Noyes, November’s Radio, Fernie, B.C.: Oolichan Books, →ISBN, page 114:
text: Generation Zed, the 15-24 year old student group, account for over 40 per cent of TAFE enrolments, comprising TAFE’s largest student cohort. Generation Zed is global, social, visual and technological and they engage with the world in a totally different way from previous generations.
ref: 2016, Bronwyn Campbell, Marvis Leung, TAFE NSW ITELG Industry Liaison Unit, Engaging Young People in Information and Communications Technology Training in TAFE NSW, Strathfield, N.S.W., page 1:
text: However, there are other changes in Canadian English with a clear quickening of pace in generations X and Y and on down into Generation ZED.
ref: 2016, Sali A. Tagliamonte, ““So cool, right?”: Canadian English Entering the 21st Century”, in Canadian Journal of Linguistics, volume 51, Cambridge University Press:
text: She called the incident a generational issue and something to be of concern for the future. The boys who did this were “special” in some diabolical manner. She described them as prototypes for the following generation, perhaps the one next over. Generation Zed, as she called them. With each generation since the Greatest Generation, the WWII generation, the children have been losing their humanity in an existentially destructive manner.
ref: 2016 November 4, Lancelot Larsen, Sons of America, volume 1, iUniverse, →ISBN:
text: Those in Generation Zed, as digital integrators, spend on average ten hours and nineteen minutes per day utilizing technology.
ref: 2017, L. Glover, Using Kingdom of God Infused Oikos to Transform Communities Where Arrow Leadership Participants Serve:
text: […] they are primarily addressed to Generation Zed and Millennial users.
ref: 2018, Monica Bernardi, Elisabetta Ruspini, “‘Sharing Tourism Economy’ Among Millennials in South Korea”, in Managing Asian Destinations, pages 177–196:
text: These youth represent four examples of how Generation Zed is embracing our changing world.
ref: 2020, Deborah Lynn Morrison, “Generation Zed: Leading the Way Toward an Uncertain Future”, in Canadian Issues, pages 64–70:
text: In this case, Generation Zed’s preferred leadership characteristics will be explored within entry-levels jobs.
ref: 2021, William Elias, Daniel Johansson, Oscar van de Voort, Brace Yourself, Gen Z Is Coming!: A Qualitative Study About Swedish Generation Z’s Leadership Preferences in Entry-Level Jobs, bachelor’s degree thesis:
text: Next Generation – HOPE is committed to the valorisation of young people (Generation Zed) in the world of work through dedicated training and education programs aimed at increasing financial knowledge, civic awareness and interest in Italy.
ref: 2022 July 21, Claudio Scardovi, Gen Z and the Future of Wealth: Sustainable Investing and Wellbeing for Our Next Generations, Bocconi University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Generation Z.