Business English Vocabulary

It's becoming more and more common for students to learn Business English to improve their career opportunities both at home and abroad in English speaking countries.

A 2012 survey of non-native English speakers found that although 92% recognised that English communication was important for success in their work, only 7% felt they had the necessary English level they need.

If you really want to learn more, we have a long term Business English course that will help you reach your goals available in our schools.

Here we continue on from yesterday's Business English lesson theme. Let’s see how familiar you are with these words. Can you choose the correct definition of each one?

These words are taken from different areas of business including sales, marketing, finance and more.

• 1 - Risk (noun):
  
  The amount of workers at a company.
  Possibility of loss/injury.
  Profits.
  A business trip.
  
  
• 2 - Deal (noun):
  
  A room where meetings are held.
  Closed letter or box.
  A business presentation.
  A business transaction
  
  
• 3 - Inflation (noun):
  
  A time when there is not much business activity.
  Move from one country to another.
  Stay the same and not grow or develop.
  Rate at which prices increase.
  
  
• 4 - Promote (verb):
  
  Try to increase sales of a product by publicity/advertising.
  Commercials that appear on TV/radio/magazines.
  Average number of copies of newspapers/magazines sold over a period of time.
  Discussing something with someone in order to reach an agreement.
  
  
• 5 - Debit (noun):
  
  An amount taken from a bank account.
  An amount of money that is given back to you.
  A piece of paper that proves that money/goods were paid for.
  Unable to continue in business because you cannot pay your debts.
  
  
• 6 - R & D Department (noun):
  
  Department responsible for marketing and advertising.
  Department responsible for training and hiring.
  Department responsible for deliveries and transport.
  Department responsible for research and development of new products.
  
  
• 7 - Terms (noun):
  
  Conditions.
  Disagreement
  Companies.
  Start again.
  
  
• 8 - Employee (noun):
  
  A person looking for a job.
  Boss.
  A person who just lost his job.
  Person employed.
  
  
• 9 - Merchandise (noun):
  
  Dates when deliveries are made.
  Things that were stolen from a shop.
  Free gifts given to customers.
  Things bought and sold.
  
  
• 10 - Sue (verb):
  
  To decrease the production of something.
  To request for funds for a department.
  To not work on special days of the year.
  To start legal action against someone in a law court.
  
  
• 11 - Launch (verb):
  
  To increase your salary.
  To transfer to another location.
  To publicly introduce a new product.
  To discuss business while eating.
  
  
• 12 - Minutes (noun):
  
  Network that connects a company with its suppliers and distributors.
  A written record of everything said at a meeting.
  A defect/fault in a computer program.
  Certificate issued by companies and governments to their lenders.
  
  
• 13 - Invest (Verb):
  
  To investigate the accounts of company.
  To start a company.
  To arrange to continue an official agreement.
  To put money for profit into business.
  
  
• 14 - Handout (noun):
  
  A report report/sample given to people at a presentation.
  Applause/Clapping.
  The age when people retire because they are too old to work.
  Buying from a charity organisation.
  
  
• 15 - Close (Verb):
  
  To finalise a deal/sale.
  To be unhappy with a product.
  To make an illegal copy of a product.
  To misunderstand something.