Nouning a Verb
rogersgeorge on December 8th, 2018
A common complaint by grammarians is about verbing nouns (meaning using a noun as if it were a verb), which you can actually do in English. For example, you can say “Let’s table the motion.”
Looks like you can noun a verb, too. Here’s what I mean:
One of my colleagues has developed a slangy jargon expression, when developing a request for a meeting: “What’s the ask?”