Common Business Terms

Common Business Nouns

Andrew Ernest Ritz

May 8, 2011

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advantage

noun –1. (23) advantage, vantage – (the quality of having a superior
or more favorable position; ”the experience gave him the advantage
over me”)


advertisement

noun –. (2) ad, advertisement, advertizement, advertising,
advertizing, advert – (a public promotion of some product or service)


advice

noun –. (18) advice – (a proposal for an appropriate course of action)


agenda

noun –1. (3) agenda, docket, schedule – (a temporally organized
plan for matters to be attended to)


apology

noun –1. (2) apology – (an expression of regret at having caused
trouble for someone; ”he wrote a letter of apology to the hostess”)


authorization

noun –1. (5) mandate, authorization, authorisation – (a document
giving an oﬃcial instruction or command)


bill

noun –1. (22) bill, measure – (a statute in draft before it becomes
law; ”they held a public hearing on the bill”)


brand

noun –1. (7) trade name, brand name, brand, marque – (a name
given to a product or service)


budget

noun –1. (4) budget – (a sum of money allocated for a particular
purpose; ”the laboratory runs on a budget of a million a year”)


commission

noun –1. (27) committee, commission – (a special group delegated
to consider some matter; ”a committee is a group that keeps minutes
and loses hours” - Milton Berle)


comparison

noun –1. (16) comparison, comparing – (the act of examining
resemblances; ”they made a comparison of noise levels”; ”the
fractions selected for comparison must require pupils to consider both
numerator and denominator”)


competition

noun –1. (17) competition – (a business relation in which two parties
compete to gain customers; ”business competition can be ﬁendish at
times”)


competitor

noun –. (7) rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender –
(the contestant you hope to defeat; ”he had respect for his rivals”;
”he wanted to know what the competition was doing”)


confirmation

noun –1. (4) confirmation, verification, check, substantiation –
(additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or
hypothesis or theory) is correct; ”fossils provided further confirmation
of the evolutionary theory”)


creditor

noun –. creditor – (a person to whom money is owed by a debtor;
someone to whom an obligation exists)


customer

noun –. (25) customer, client – (someone who pays for goods or
services)


deadline

noun –. (2) deadline – (the point in time at which something must
be completed)


debt

noun –1. (3) debt – (the state of owing something (especially
money); ”he is badly in debt”)


debtor

noun –. debtor, debitor – (a person who owes a creditor; someone
who has the obligation of paying a debt)


decision

noun –1. (25) decision, determination, conclusion – (the act of
making up your mind about something; ”the burden of decision was
his”; ”he drew his conclusions quickly”)


decrease

noun –1. (5) decrease, lessening, drop-oﬀ – (a change downward;
”there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided”;
”there was a sharp drop-oﬀ in sales”)


deficit

noun –1. (1) deficit, shortage, shortfall – (the property of being an
amount by which something is less than expected or required; ”new
blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make
up the nutritional deficit”)


delivery

noun –1. (3) delivery, bringing – (the act of delivering or distributing
something (as goods or mail); ”his reluctant delivery of bad news”)


department

noun –1. (28) department, section – (a specialized division of a large
organization; ”you’ll ﬁnd it in the hardware department”; ”she got a
job in the historical section of the Treasury”)


description

noun –1. (27) description, verbal description – (a statement that
represents something in words)


difference

noun –1. (73) difference – (the quality of being unlike or dissimilar;
”there are many differences between jazz and rock”)


disadvantage

noun –. (3) disadvantage – (the quality of having an inferior or less
favorable position)


distribution

noun –1. (23) distribution, statistical distribution – ((statist ics) an
arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or
theoretical frequency of occurrence)


employee

noun –. (57) employee – (a worker who is hired to perform a job)


employer

noun –. (14) employer – (a person or ﬁrm that employs workers)


enquiry

noun –1. question, inquiry, enquiry, query, interrogation – (an
instance of questioning; ”there was a question about my training”;
”we made inquiries of all those who were present”)


environment

noun –1. (21) environment – (the totality of surrounding conditions;
”he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room”)


equipment

noun –. (48) equipment – (an instrumentality needed for an
undertaking or to perform a service)


estimate

noun –1. (13) estimate, estimation, approximation, idea – (an
approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; ”an estimate
of what it would cost”; ”a rough idea how long it would take”)


experience

noun –1. (52) experience – (the accumulation of knowledge or skill
that results from direct participation in events or activitie s; ”a man
of experience”; ”experience is the best teacher”)


explanation

noun –1. (28) explanation, account – (a statement that makes
something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or
operation or circumstances etc.; ”the explanation was very simple”; ”I
expected a brief account”)


facilities

noun –1. (35) facility, installation – (a building or place that provides
a particular service or is used for a particular industry; ”the assembly
plant is an enormous facility”)


factory

noun –. (18) factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory – (a
plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for
manufacturing)


feedback

noun –1. (1) feedback – (the process in which part of the output of a
system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output)


goal

noun –1. (34) goal, end – (the state of aﬀairs that a plan is intended
to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to
achieve it; ”the ends justify the means”)


growth

noun –1. (37) growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny,
ontogenesis – ((biology) the process of an individual organism
growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in
an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex
level; ”he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children”)


guarantee

noun –1. (2) guarantee, warrant, warrantee, warranty – (a written
assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet
certain speciﬁcations)


improvement

noun –1. (7) improvement, betterment, advance – (a change for the
better; progress in development)


increase

noun –1. (49) addition, increase, gain – (a quantity that is added;
”there was an addition to property taxes this year”; ”they recorded
the cattle’s gain in weight over a period of weeks”)


industry

noun –1. (56) industry – (the people or companies engaged in a
particular kind of commercial enterprise; ”each industry has its own
trade publications”)


instructions

noun –1. (1) instruction manual, instructions, book of instructio ns,
operating instructions – (a manual usually accompanying a technical
device and explaining how to install or operate it)
Overview of noun instruction
The noun instruction has 4 senses (ﬁrst 3 from tagged texts)
1. (11) direction, instruction – (a message describing how something
is to be done; ”he gave directions faster than she could follow them”)


interest

noun –1. (62) interest, involvement – (a sense of concern with and
curiosity about someone or something; ”an interest in music”)


inventory

noun –1. (5) inventory, stock list – (a detailed list of all the items in
stock)


invoice

noun –. bill, account, invoice – (an itemized statement of money
owed for goods shipped or services rendered; ”he paid his bill and
left”; ”send me an account of what I owe”)


knowledge

noun –. (45) cognition, knowledge, noesis – (the psychological result
of perception and learning and reasoning)


limit

noun –1. (24) limit, bound, boundary – (the greatest possible degree
of something; ”what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable
behavior”; ”to the limit of his ability”)


loss

noun –1. (16) loss – (something that is lost; ”the car was a total
loss”; ”loss of livestock left the rancher bankrupt”)


margin

noun –1. (6) margin, border, perimeter – (the boundary line or the
area immediately inside the boundary)


market

noun –1. (12) market, marketplace, market place – (the world of
commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold;
”without competition there would be no market”; ”they were driven
from the marketplace”)


message

noun –1. (20) message – (a communication (usually brief) that is
written or spoken or signaled; ”he sent a three-word message”)


mistake

noun –1. (13) mistake, error, fault – (a wrong action attributab le to
bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; ”he made a bad mistake”;
”she was quick to point out my errors”; ”I could understand his
English in spite of his grammatical faults”)


objective

noun –1. (38) aim, object, objective, target – (the goal intended to
be attained (and which is believed to be attainable); ”the sole object
of her trip was to see her children”)


offer

noun –1. (2) offer, offering – (the verbal act of offering; ”a generous
offer of assistance”)


opinion

noun –1. (21) opinion, sentiment, persuasion, view, thought – (a
personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty;
”my opinion diﬀers from yours”; ”I am not of your persuasion”;
”what are your thoughts on Haiti?”)


option

noun –1. option – (the right to buy or sell property at an agreed
price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date
the money is forfeited)


order

noun –1. (26) order – ((often plural) a command given by a superior
(e.g., a military or law enforcement oﬃcer) that must be obeyed; ”the
British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London”)


output

noun –1. (5) end product, output – (ﬁnal product; the things
produced)


payment

noun –1. (32) payment – (a sum of money paid or a claim discharg
ed)


penalty

noun –1. (6) punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation – (the
act of punishing)


permission

noun –1. (5) permission – (approval to do something; ”he asked
permission to leave”)


possibility

noun –1. (21) possibility – (a future prospect or potential; ”this room
has great possibilities”)


product

noun –1. (52) merchandise, ware, product – (commodities oﬀered for
sale; ”good business depends on having good merchandise”; ”that
store oﬀers a variety of products”)


production

noun –1. (36) production – (the act or process of producing
something; ”Shakespeare’s production of poetry was enormous”; ”the
production of white blood cells”)


profit

noun –1. (6) net income, net, net profit, lucre, profit, profits,
earnings – (the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of
time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses))


promotion

noun –1. (4) promotion, publicity, promotional material, packagin g –
(a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or
person or institution; ”the packaging of new ideas”)


purchase

noun –1. (8) purchase – (the acquisition of something for payment;
”they closed the purchase with a handshake”)


reduction

noun –1. (16) decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down – (the act
of decreasing or reducing something)


refund

noun –1. (7) refund – (money returned to a payer)


reminder

noun –1. (3) reminder – (a message that helps you remember
something; ”he ignored his wife’s reminders”)


repair

noun –1. (5) repair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation –
(the act of putting something in working order again)


report

noun –1. (50) report, study, written report – (a written document
describing the ﬁndings of some individual or group; ”this accords with
the recent study by Hill and Dale”)


responsibility

noun –1. (17) duty, responsibility, obligation – (the social force that
binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; ”we must
instill a sense of duty in our children”; ”every right implies a
responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a
duty”- John D.Rockefeller Jr)


result

noun –1. (83) consequence, eﬀect, outcome, result, event, issue,
upshot – (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous
phenomenon; ”the magnetic eﬀect was greater when the rod was
lengthwise”; ”his decision had depressing consequences for business”;
”he acted very wise after the event”)


retailer

noun –. (5) retailer, retail merchant – (a merchant who sells goods
at retail)


rise

noun –1. (8) rise – (a growth in strength or number or importanc e)


risk

noun –1. (4) hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk, endangerment – (a source
of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; ”drinking
alcohol is a health hazard”)


salary

noun –. (10) wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary – (something
that remunerates; ”wages were paid by check”; ”he wasted his pay on
drink”; ”they saved a quarter of all their earnings”)


sale

noun –1. (29) sale – (a particular instance of selling; ”he has just
made his ﬁrst sale”; ”they had to complete the sale before the banks
closed”)


schedule

noun –1. (11) agenda, docket, schedule – (a temporally organized
plan for matters to be attended to)


share

noun –1. (29) share, portion, part, percentage – (assets belonging to
or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; ”he wanted
his share in cash”)


signature

noun –1. (1) signature – (your name written in your own handwrit
ing)


stock

noun –1. (28) stock – (the capital raised by a corporation through
the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity);
”he owns a controlling share of the company’s stock”)


success

noun –1. (36) success – (an event that accomplishes its intended
purpose; ”let’s call heads a success and tails a failure”; ”the election
was a remarkable success for the Whigs”)


suggestion

noun –1. (13) suggestion – (an idea that is suggested; ”the picnic
was her suggestion”)


supply

noun –1. (21) supply – (an amount of something available for use)


support

noun –1. (15) support – (the activity of providing for or maintaining
by supplying with money or necessities; ”his support kept the family
together”; ”they gave him emotional support during diﬃcult times”)


target

noun –1. (6) target, mark – (a reference point to shoot at; ”his
arrow hit the mark”)


transport

noun –1. (3) conveyance, transport – (something that serves as a
means of transportation)


turnover

noun –1. (2) employee turnover, turnover rate, turnover – (the ratio
of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time
period to the average number of workers)


wholesaler

noun –. (1) jobber, middleman, wholesaler – (someone who buys
large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the
ultimate customers)


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