💼 Business

Learn the vocabulary of companies, money, growth, and strategy. Make business news easier to follow and easier to understand in real context.

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Mature

C1

Fully developed, grown, or advanced in character or behavior.

Bond

B2

something that forms a connection between people or groups, such as a feeling of friendship or shared ideas and experiences

Equity

B1

The quality of being fair and impartial.

Leverage

B1

To use something to achieve maximum advantage or benefit.

Margin

B2

the empty space at the side of a written or printed page

Administration

B2

the activities that are done in order to plan, organize and run a business, school or other institution

Board

A2

a long thin piece of strong hard material, especially wood, used, for example, for making floors, building walls and roofs and making boats

Credit

A2

an arrangement that you make, with a shop for example, to pay later for something you buy

Debt

B2

a sum of money that somebody owes

Loan

B2

money that an organization such as a bank lends and somebody borrows

Loss

B1

the state of no longer having something or as much of something; the process that leads to this

Profit

B1

the money that you make in business or by selling things, especially after paying the costs involved

Strike

B2

to hit somebody/something hard or with force

Union

B1

an organization of workers, usually in a particular industry, that exists to protect their interests, improve conditions of work, etc.

Acquisition

C1

the act of getting something, especially knowledge, a skill, etc.

Audit

C1

an official examination of business and financial records to see that they are true and correct

Bankruptcy

B1

the state of being bankrupt

Bid

B2

an offer by a person or a company to pay a particular amount of money for something

Bonus

C1

an extra amount of money that is added to a payment, especially to somebody’s wages or salary as a reward

Compliance

C1

the practice of obeying rules or requests made by people in authority

Default

C1

what happens or appears if you do not make any other choice or change, especially in a computer program

Disclosure

C1

the act of making something known or public that was previously secret or private

Earnings

C1

the money that you earn for the work that you do

Fiscal

B1

connected with government or public money, especially taxes

Forecast

B2

a statement about what will happen in the future, based on information that is available now

Fraud

B2

the crime of cheating somebody in order to get money or goods illegally

Fundraising

C1

the activity of collecting money for a charity or organization, often by organizing social events or entertainments

Guidance

C1

help or advice that is given to somebody, especially by somebody older or with more experience

Inflation

B2

a fall in the value of money and a general increase in prices; the rate at which this happens

Inventory

B1

a written list of all the objects, furniture, etc. in a particular building

Investor

B2

a person or an organization that invests money in something

Listing

C1

a list, especially an official or published list of people or things, often arranged in alphabetical order

Merger

C1

the act of joining two or more organizations or businesses into one

Placement

B2

the act of finding somebody a suitable job or place to live

Provision

C1

the act of supplying somebody with something that they need or want; something that is supplied

Recession

B2

a difficult time for the economy of a country, when there is less trade and industrial activity than usual and more people are unemployed

Revenue

B2

the money that a government receives from taxes or that an organization, etc. receives from its business

Settlement

C1

an official agreement that ends an argument between two people or groups

Shareholder

C1

an owner of shares in a company or business

Stake

C1

money that somebody invests in a company

Upgrade

C1

to make a machine, computer system, etc. more powerful and efficient; to start using a new and better version of a machine, system, etc.

Yield

C1

the total amount of crops, profits, etc. that are produced

Dividend

A sum of money paid regularly by a company to its shareholders out of its profits.

Buyback

A corporate action where a company repurchases its own shares from the marketplace.

Shares

Parts of a company's equity that can be bought or sold.

Valuation

The process of determining the monetary worth of an asset or company.

Quarterly

Occurring every three months.

Interest rates

The percentage charged on borrowed money or earned on savings.

Forex

The market for trading currencies.

Downgrade

To lower the status, quality, or importance of something.

Liquidity

The availability of liquid assets to a market or company.

Cash flow

The total amount of money moving in and out of a business over time.

Balance sheet

A financial statement that summarizes a company's assets, liabilities, and equity at a specific point in time.

Refinancing

The process of obtaining a new loan to pay off an existing loan.

Lending

The act of giving money or items to someone with the expectation of return.

Borrowing

Taking and using something belonging to someone else with the intention of returning it.

Overdraft

An agreement allowing a bank account holder to withdraw more money than is available.

Collateral

Something pledged as security against a loan or obligation.

Takeover

An act of gaining control of a company or organization.

Spin-off

A product, show, or derivative created from an original source.