In this 20 words glossary, you can find business terms, their meaning and their translation in french.
account
noun
A record or statement of financial expenditure and receipts relating to a particular period or purpose.
Example: Light buyers The Waitrose light buyers's purchases ACCOUNT for 11 per cent of the client's income from organic sales, but at the same time are as numerous as the Heavy buyers.
en: compte
accountant
noun
A person whose job is to keep, inspect, and analyse financial accounts.
Example: In terms of day to day activities this meant that directors would have frequent meetings with project leaders, a weekly meeting with the office ACCOUNTANT and would serve as a forefront of the business.
en: comptable
bankrupt
adjective
When a person or an organization is declared in law unable to pay outstanding debts.
Example: If states did not protect the basic rights of individuals - the three basic goals of society in particular - then their rights as states would be BANKRUPT.
en: faire faillite
bankruptcy
noun
The state of being bankrupt.
Example: Cash position is core to corporation when comparing with profit, for a company may loss in profit for several times, while facing BANKRUPTCY after exhausting cash.
en: la faillite
benchmarking
verb
To evaluate or check (something) by comparison with a standard.
Example: The way in which the EES is meant to work as a process is 'being based on guidelines that provide a margin for adaptation at national level, but which also involve processes of BENCHMARKING, multilateral surveillance and peer review.
en: analyse comparative
bill of lading
noun
A detailed list of a shipment of goods in the form of a receipt given by the carrier to the person consigning the goods.
en: connaissement
break even
verb
To reach a point in a business venture when the profits are equal to the costs.
Example: However in order to BREAK EVEN the revenues must be quite substantial.
en: seuil de rentabilité
broker
noun
A person who buys and sells goods or assets for others.
Example: Her father was an insurance BROKER while her mother had a love of mathematics, which she passed to her daughter.
en: courtier
capital
noun
Wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing.
Example: The dairy enterprise is not the sole income of the farm, the Single Farm Payment (payment still to come), and agri-environment schemes (will) contribute significantly in terms of CAPITAL, and labour requirements.
en: capital
cooperative
noun
A cooperative is an association of persons (organization) that is owned and controlled by the people to meet their common economic, social, and/or cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically controlled business (enterprise).
Example: The women organized a collective committee, the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Samiti (MSS) which established a COOPERATIVE for providing small loans to women, a store that sold local crafts made by former sex trade workers, and provided support to women who wanted to leave the sex trade.
en: coopérative
corporation
noun
credit
noun
The ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future.
Example: The authorities were very generous with granting CREDIT (through the nationalised bank system) but in a quite unreasonable way.
en: crédit
cubicle
noun
A small partitioned-off area of a room, for example one containing a bed in a dwelling or one containing a desk in an office.
Example: It would have been preferable if Joseph had been able to wait in a CUBICLE but all areas were full and the reception area was the only option.
en: cabine
currency
noun
A system of money in general use in a particular country.
Example: "Report on CURRENCY and Finance.".
en: devise
dept
noun
Something, typically money, that is owed or due.
Example: Set up in 1999 with funding from a range of sources including £40 million from a government grant, £31 million from a European grant, £4 million from local councils and a £40 million approved loan, it has a planned DEPT lasting 30 years.
en: dette
dividend
noun
A sum of money paid regularly (typically quarterly) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits (or reserves).
Example: The takeover will also please shareholders because there part of the deal included a 2p per share special interim DIVIDEND [32].
en: dividende
file
noun
A folder or box for holding loose papers that are typically arranged in a particular order for easy reference.
Example: THE MOLLUSC SEQUENCE IN A PALAEOCHANNEL AT UFTON GREEN, KENNET VALLEY Apart from fig. 4, figures are not included in the corpus FILE (only caption).
en: dossier
headquarters
noun
The place or building serving as the managerial and administrative center of an organization.
Example: FSA 2001 cited in Lang, T. et al, 2003 p.6 Lang, T. et al, 2003p.6 Millstone et al, 2003 p.47 The FSA UK HEADQUARTERS are in London, but also has national offices in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
en: quartier général
inventory
noun
A complete list of items such as property, goods in stock, or the contents of a building.
Example: The Algorithm : 2. a Informal sequence of steps : The user begins play, they have no objects in their INVENTORY.
en: inventaire
withdraw
noun
Remove or take away (something) from a particular place or position.
Example: Another ethical consideration in interview studies is that the aspects of good interviewing such as building trust and rapport might be the factors that make it hard for participants to refuse or to WITHDRAW (Green & Thorogood, 2004).
