Business Vocabulary

Match the words with the definitions.

1. an accountant	a. a person who buys goods or services for their own use
2. an accessory	b. (Latin) information about a person’s education, work and experience; used when applying for a job
3. an affiliate	c. a person who makes important decisions
4. an agenda	d. a desk where one pays the bill when one leaves a hotel, a shop, etc.
5. an agent	e. to give work to someone
6. an auditor	f. a company that sells the same goods or services (operates in the same area of the market) as another company
7. a bill	g. to transport and sell goods
8. a board	h. an amount of money taken off the price of something
9. a bonus	i. a person who buys and sells things (foreign money, shares in companies, etc.) or (financial) services for other people
10. a brand	j. wealth, esp. a large amount of money used for starting a new business
11. a branch	k. goods, products that are sold abroad, to/in other countries
12. to break even	l. a person who keeps or checks, examines the financial records (the records of money received, paid and owed by a company) of a business
13. a broker	m. to send (esp. goods) somewhere for a particular purpose
14. a buyout	n. an organization or company which/that is connected to/with or controlled by a larger company, group
15. a capital	o. a person who buys goods or services
16. a competitor	p. a person who examines a company’s accounts, usually yearly, to see that they are in order
17. a consumer	q. an office or a shop that is connected to a larger company; one of the offices or groups that form part of a large business organization
18. to employ	r. a list of things, matters that people will discuss at a meeting
19. an executive	s. a particular make of goods or their trademark; a type of product made by a particular company
20. a check out /in	t. something (an extra item) added to a product (to a machine or to clothing) which has a useful or decorative purpose, but is not essential
21. a Curriculum Vitae (CV)	u. a request for payment of money owed, or a piece of paper that shows how much money one owes for goods or services
22. a customer	v. an extra sum, amount of money paid to an employee as a reward or a present in addition to the money one was expecting
23. to dispatch	w. a person or a company that represents the interests of another company in a market
24. a discount	x. to make neither profits nor losses on a business or a product
25. to distribute	y. the buying of a company by its managers, directors, etc., to stop another company from taking it over
26. exports	z. a group of people who are responsible for controlling and organizing a company

Key: 1. l; 2. t; 3. n; 4. r; 5. w; 6. p; 7. u; 8. z; 9. v; 10. s; 11. q; 12. x; 13. i; 14. y; 15. j; 16. f; 17. a (o); 18. e; 19. c; 20. d; 21. b; 22. o (a); 23. m; 24. h; 25. g; 26. k

Bibliography:

1. Novikova, I. A., Starting Business English, English Philology Department, Moscow City Pedagogical University, 2002.

2. Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

3. Raitskaya, Lilia, Cochrane, Stuart, Macmillan Guide to Economics, Student’s Book, 2007.

4. Macmillan English Dictionary For Advanced Learners, International Student Edition, Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2002.