business vocab

Business Expressions

What words related to business do you know?

Are you a business entrepreneur?

What kind of business do you run?

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Business card

You give this to someone when you introduce yourself.

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Business Community

A private and secure environment for various organizations that want to share knowledge, promotions, offers, services, products or events, to network, establish new contacts or reinforce current ones.

Business contact: relationship between company employees.Business correspondent: a journalist who writes articles on business news for newspapers.Business deal: a particular instance of buying or selling.Business district: central area or commercial center of a town or city.

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Business hours: hours during the day in which business is commonly conducted or opened.

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Business interest: the amount of money paid for the use of someone else's money.

Business investment: money committed or property acquired for future income.

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Business lunch: a place where business is discussed. Usually during meals.Business meeting: a reunion between two or more people to discuss business.

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Business trip: a journey taken for business purpose.Business news: news about business and investment.

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Business partner:An individual or company who has some degree of involvement with another entity’s business dealings.

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Business Plan – BP: A guide – a roadmap for your business that outlines goals and details how you plan to achieve those goals.

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Business School:is a university-level institution that confers degrees in business administration or management apart university of business.

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Business Studies: is an academic subject taught at secondary level in some countries (Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Argentina, Zimbabwe, UK), as well as at university level in many countries. Its study combines elements of accountancy, finance, marketing, organizational studies and economics.

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Small Business: It is a privately owned and operated business. A small business typically has a small number of employees.

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Large Business:Are large-scale corporate-controlled financial or business activities. As a term, it is typically used to describe activities that run "huge transactions“.

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TALKING ABOUT BUSINESS

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Exploit developing regions Flout (environmental) agreements

Generate enormous profits

• Profit is the positive financial gain your business makes after you've subtracted all your expenses.

Influence governments

Low volume of sales

Multi-national coorporation

• is an organization that owns or controls productions of goods or services in one or more countries other than the home country.

Niche market

• is the subset of the market on which a specific product is focused. For example, sports channels like ESPN and Fox Sports target a niche of sports enthusiasts.

Privately owned and operated• A privately held company or close corporation is a business

company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged privately. More ambiguous terms for a privately held company are unquoted company and unlisted company.

Specialist products

• Products which are aimed at a small select sector of the market.

• Product specialist: from development to marketing, product specialists are responsible for managing a product throughout its life cycle.

Tailor-made services

• Taylor-made: Perfectly fitted to a condition, preference, or purpose; made or as if made to order.

• be authoritarian

Wield power

Expressions with business

Mind your own businessThat’s what you get for sticking your nose in somebody else’s business

It’s none of your business He means business

• He is serious about something.

Let’s get down to business

• a phrase marking a transition to a business discussion or serious talk