FWIW, what your coworkers are doing is one of the ways that language slowly changes. By them misunderstanding the true meaning of the word and applying it in a

FWIW, what your coworkers are doing is one of the ways that language slowly changes. By them misunderstanding the true meaning of the word and applying it in a slightly different, but distinct sense, the word is undergoing semantic drift [1] in their circles. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change