Business and Money Vocabulary
Shareholder – An owner of shares in a company or a business.
Sentence – In recent years the model’s exclusive focus on shareholder interests has to a degree been modified.
Devolve – to be given to other people.
Sentence – The goal of the welfare bill is to devolve power and responsibilty to the states.
Legal Tender – Something that can be used as an official medium of payment.
Sentence – It was not legal tender but traded at a free price against the rouble, and was informally linked to gold.
Gold – great wealth
Sentence – A good head and an industrious hand are worth gold in any land.
Debt – An obligation to pay or do something.
Sentence – The crux of the country’s economic problems is its foreign debt.
Subsidisation – The act or practice of giving money to somebody or to an organisation to help pay for something.
Sentence – Tax subsidisation of private health care will have moved the market away from rather than towards greater efficiency.
Subsidisation – The act or practice of giving money to somebody or to an organisation to help pay for something.
Sentence – Tax subsidisation of private health care will have moved the market away from rather than towards greater efficiency.
Saving – An amount of something such as time or money that you do not need to use or spend.
Sentence – This represents a saving of ￡60,000 for the company.
Loan – The act of lending something.
Sentence – It calls for the exclusion of all commercial lending institutions from the college loan program.
Grubstake – Funds supplied in return for a promised share of profit.
Sentence – But I’m having trouble finding anybody to put up a grubstake to help me get started.
Wealth – A large amount of money, property etc that a person or country owns.
Sentence – Learning is wealth to the poor, an honour to the rich, an aid to the young, and a support and comfort to the aged.
Scratch – To make or remove mark, etc on something deliberately.
Sentence – After the breakdown of the company, my friend started from scratch to build his business.
Cost – The amount of money that you need in order to buy, make or do something.
Sentence – The cost of these proposed changes makes them unacceptable.
Expense – The money that you spend on something.
Sentence – Democrats will complain he overemphasizes punishment at the expense of prevention and treatment.
Benefit – A helpful and useful effect that something has.
Sentence – Benefit is calculated on the basis of average weekly earnings.
Fundraiser – A social event or an entertainment held in order to collect money for charity or an organisation.
Sentence – The invitation design above is the latest project I’ve done for a fundraiser luncheon for Ringling College of Art and Design .
Collect – Get or being together.
Sentence – The survey didn’t collect any information about temporary workers.
Invested – To buy property, shares in a company , etc in the hope of making a profit.
Sentence – The company has invested a great deal of time and effort in setting up new training schemes.
Usurer – A person who lends money to people at unfairly high rates of interest.
Sentence – Any peasant short of ready money now had to resort to a usurer.
Venture capital – Money that is invested in a new company to help it develop.
Sentence – A venture capital fund usually lends money but also demands the right to buy a big slice of the firm.
Pittance – An inadequate payment
Sentence – No more than a pittance, really, and it made me glad to think about his disappointment.
