Financial words
Financial words
12 Investing in retirement plans terms
This is a lot of words in the financial world.
- Amortization
- The action or process of gradually writing off the initial cost of an asset.
- fr: Amortissement
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- Asset
- Property owned by a person or company, regarded as having value and available to meet debts, commitments, or legacies.
"growth in net assets"
- fr: Actif
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- Bid
- Offer (a certain price) for something, especially at an auction.
- fr: Offre
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- Borrow
- Take and use (something that belongs to someone else) with the intention of returning it.
- fr: Emprunteur
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- Currency
- A system of money in general use in a particular country.
- fr: Devise
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- Dividend
- A sum of money paid regularly (typically quarterly) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits (or reserves).
- fr: Dividende
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- Liability
- Refers to the state of being responsible for something, and this term can refer to any money or service owed to another party.
- fr: Passif
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- Loan
- A thing that is borrowed, especially a sum of money that is expected to be paid back with interest.
- fr: Prêt
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- Overdraft
- A deficit in a bank account caused by drawing more money than the account holds.
- fr: Découvert bancaire
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- Savings
- An economy of or reduction in money, time, or another resource.
- fr: Économies
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- Stockholder
- A person, company, or institution that owns at least one share of a company's stock, known as equity.
- fr: Actionnaire
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- Yield
- Refers to the earnings generated and realized on an investment over a particular period of time.
- fr: Taux de rendement
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