This glossary is about my field of study which is business. In this glossary, you will find various examples of business related words and their definitions, text-to-speech pronunciation model, automatic translations to French, images from Wikipedia Commons and example sentences from the Lextutor Concordancer.
brand
noun
A brand is the perceived, emotional, and functional reputation of a product, service, or organization that exists in a customer's mind.
Example: Rites of sense making by creating a Customer Insight Unit to perform in-depth research with customers to gain an understanding of customers and perceptions of the M&S BRAND.
fr: marque
businessman
noun
A man who works in business or commerce, especially at an executive level.
Example: Svevo was a BUSINESSMAN, manager of an anti-corrosive paint for ships company owned by his wife's family, with factories in Trieste, Murano, and London.
fr: homme d'affaires
buy
verb
Obtain in exchange for payment.
Example: People may obviously think after the event and they will not BUY a brand which disappointed them.
fr: acheter
contract
noun
A written or spoken agreement, especially one concerning employment, sales, or tenancy, that is intended to be enforceable by law.
Example: I have made no assumptions about the value of the CONTRACT.
fr: contrat
customer
noun
A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.
Example: Pearson's correlation As an additional and final point it should be added, that for the whole investigated sample, the factors most strongly and positively correlated with the spending on organic foods were household size, annual income and CUSTOMER's age.
fr: client
employ
verb
Give work to (someone) and pay them for it.
Example: This would have caused a severe shortage of labourers for the Lords to EMPLOY, which would have offered the peasants more control over wages and the ability to buy their own land.
fr: employer
finance
noun
The management of large amounts of money, especially by governments or large companies.
Example: Greenberg's view is solely FINANCE-based, and hence limited.
fr: finance
industry
noun
Economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories.
Example: As from 1983, the credit allocated by the government to each bank was based on the amount lent to the priority sectors which included, inter alia , the sugar INDUSTRY and agriculture (Bundoo and Dabee, 1999).
fr: industrie
investment
noun
The action or process of investing money for profit or material result.
Example: A fall in real interest rate might induce firms to increase their planned INVESTMENT.
fr: investissement
job
noun
A paid position of regular employment.
Example: Employees expected stable and rewardful JOB.
fr: travail
law
noun
The system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
"they were taken to court for breaking the law".
Example: Markesinis and Deakin's Tort LAW 5th ed, Oxford University Press, 2003, p.76 pp 6-1.
fr: loi
marketing
noun
The process of identifying, anticipating, and satisfying customer needs profitably by creating, communicating, and delivering value.
Example: All these roles can be linked to the management tasks of production, MARKETING, financial and personal management.
fr: commercialisation
money
noun
A current medium of exchange in the form of coins and banknotes; coins and banknotes collectively.
Example: They present the economic view, according to which "commodities and things which circulate throughout an economic system and can be exchanged for other things, usually MONEY" (Preucel and Hodder 1996: 106).
fr: argent
negociation
noun
Negotiation is a strategic dialogue or back-and-forth communication between two or more parties aimed at reaching a mutually acceptable agreement, resolving disputes, or achieving specific objectives.
fr: négociation
product
noun
An article or substance that is manufactured or refined for sale.
Example: Consumers are more interested in special offers and the price of the mayonnaise and fail to link it to animal welfare issues to the PRODUCT.
fr: produit
profit
noun
A financial gain, especially the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something.
Example: Less regrettably, logging companies will lose PROFIT.
fr: profit
rush
verb
Move with urgent haste.
Example: We were aware that the interviewee needed time to answer the questions and when there was a slight pause the interviewer smiled and did not RUSH in with a prompt too quickly.
fr: se précipiter
stock
noun
The goods or merchandise kept on the premises of a business or warehouse and available for sale or distribution.
Example: Although the broody hen is the most effective way of rearing chicks it is not the most cost worthy or easiest if producing large amounts of STOCK.
fr: réserve
strategy
noun
A plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.
Example: Another conclusion may be drawn from such STRATEGY: consumption subsidies were at the same time subsidies for producers.
fr: stratégie
worklist
noun
A worklist is an organized, actionable list of outstanding tasks, assignments, or items that need to be completed by a person, team, or system.
