Let's continue our exploration of business writing.
Today, we'll look at 100 essential business nouns. Visit this site (http://www.speakspeak.com/html/d2e_resources_top_100_nouns_library.htm) and review the list.
Pick out the first 2 or 3 words that you're not familiar with and go look up those terms in an online dictionary, such as Dictionary.com or Merriam-Webster.com. Then, once you've gotten the definitions, please come back here, post each word & its definition.
Be sure to return to this blog topic to see what other students have added after your response. It's a quick way to learn more words and to help others learn new terms too!
13 comments:
mirlene
cost: Price what is the cost of loaf of bread in Vancouver
Share : one's own part or portion of
turnover: The rate at which employees leave job or company
Most of the business terms I knew right off. There were a few terms I could guess but I didn't really know the meanings to such as:
1)Deficit - (noun) 2a: an excess of expenditure over revenue b: a loss in business operations
2)Market - (noun) 4d: the area of economic activity in which buyers and sellers come together and the forces of supply and demand affect prices
3)Output - (noun) 1c: the amount produced by a person in a given time
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These terms, though I have heard them used, I did not know what their part in the business world refers to:
1)Margin - (noun) 4 a: the difference which exists between net sales and the cost of merchandise sold and from which expenses are usually met or profit derived
2)Turnover - (noun) 6: the amount of business done ; especially : the volume of shares traded on a stock exchange
There are two words in the list that I'm not too sure about.
Enquiry: An instance of questions. A systematic investigation of a matter of public interest. ( I didn't know enquiry and inquiry had the same meaning).
Turnover: Change or movement of people, as tenants or customers, in, out, or through a place.
There are two words in the list that I'm not too sure about.
Enquiry: An instance of questions. A systematic investigation of a matter of public interest. ( I didn't know enquiry and inquiry had the same meaning).
Turnover: Change or movement of people, as tenants or customers, in, out, or through a place.
March 7, 2009 12:01 AM
Sorry.. forgot to type my name.
Claudia E.
I am familiar with all the essential business nouns except
Output - something produced
Leonie Florestal
Deficit:noun an excess of expenditure over revinue.
Success:Noun one that succeeds.
Reminder:Verb to put in mind of something cause to remember.
Sheila W.
I am familiar with most of the business nouns. There is one that I am not familiar.
turnover: For a company, the ratio of annual sales to inventory; or equivalently, the fraction of a year that an average item remains in inventory. Low turnover is a sign of inefficiency, since inventory usually has a rate of return of zero.
In a human resources context, turnover or labor turnover is the rate at which an employer gains and loses employees.
Geraldine G.
Objective - Something that actually exists.
Brand - A mark indicating identity or ownership.
Output - The total amount produce by a company/person.
Allison.
I knew most of the word but was not sure about two.
Charge for-not in the dictionary
Dispatch - to send off with speed
Gm
Sorry I blogged in the wrong one before. My two words are.
factory-building with facilities for manufacturing.
debtor-one who owes a debt.
Gm
Enquiry: An instance of questioning. A search for knowledge.
Output: The quantity or amount produced, as in a given time.
Margie
Turnover: a turning from one side, place, or direction to its opposite.
Objective: strictly business.
Enquiry: inspection, interrogation, query, research
Maria Rodriguez-Trelles
All the terms were familiar to me except enquiry. Enquiry is an instance of questions. I have heard of inquiry but enquiry was unfamiliar to me.
Abbey P.
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