Origin Dictionary
The language of financial transition.
The Dictionary is the public language and distribution layer of Origin Protocol. Each definition turns the underlying grammar into a discrete, searchable and distributable entry point — designed to travel across platforms and lead audiences into the wider body of work.
Pain of Paying
The pain of paying is the unpleasant feeling associated with parting with money or anticipating a payment.
Paper Hands
Paper hands is a dismissive market expression for someone who sells quickly or is seen as unable to tolerate volatility.
Parasocial Relationship
A parasocial relationship is a one-sided emotional bond with a media figure or character who does not personally know the audience member.
Passive Income
In everyday use, passive income is money earned with relatively little ongoing direct work, often from assets or work completed earlier.
Pay Freeze
A pay freeze is a period during which an employer keeps pay rates unchanged rather than granting increases.
Pay Transparency
Pay transparency is the availability or disclosure of information about pay amounts, ranges, or how pay is determined.
Permissionless
Permissionless describes a system in which participation in a specified activity does not require advance approval from a central operator, provided its rules are met.
Personal Brand
A personal brand is the set of associations and expectations people connect with an individual, influencing attention, trust and opportunities.
Platform Economy
The platform economy consists of economic activity organized through digital services that connect participants such as buyers, sellers, workers, advertisers and audiences.
Pocket Money
Pocket money is a small amount given to a child for personal spending, often regularly. It commonly means the same thing as an allowance.
Power Imbalance
A power imbalance exists when one party has substantially more control over decisions, resources or consequences than another.
Prenup
A prenup, or prenuptial agreement, is an agreement made before marriage addressing financial matters such as property and obligations, with legal effect determined by applicable law.
Present Bias
Present bias gives immediate rewards or costs disproportionately greater weight than otherwise similar rewards or costs arriving later.
Presenteeism
Presenteeism is attending or continuing to work when illness would reasonably warrant time off.
Price Discrimination
Price discrimination charges different prices for equivalent goods or services across customers or purchases for reasons not fully explained by cost differences.
Price-Quality Heuristic
The price-quality heuristic is using a product's price as a shortcut for judging its quality.
Prisoner's Dilemma
A prisoner’s dilemma is a game in which each player benefits from defecting regardless of the other’s choice, yet both do better through mutual cooperation than mutual defection.
Privilege
Privilege is an advantage linked to circumstances such as family resources, social position, connections or institutional access that others may not share.
Procrastination
Procrastination is postponing an intended task, especially when delay is unnecessary or likely to create problems.
Pump and Dump
A pump and dump is a manipulation scheme that inflates an asset's price through misleading promotion or coordinated activity so organizers can sell into the demand.
Quid Pro Quo
A quid pro quo is something given or done in return for a specified benefit from another party.
Quiet Firing
Quiet firing is an informal term for deliberately making an employee's working conditions worse to push them to resign.
Quiet Luxury
Quiet luxury is a style associated with costly, understated goods that signal refinement through materials, fit and recognizable details rather than prominent branding.
Quiet Quitting
Quiet quitting is an informal term for remaining in a job while limiting effort and tasks to what the role requires rather than going beyond them.