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Business English Lesson – Advanced Level's archive
Business Buzzwords: Young Companies
1. capitalists mitigate the risk of investing by
developing a portfolio of young companies in a single
fund.

Invention
Investment
Venture
Vulture
2. Sanyo Electric is cooperating with the investigation into
its suspected window of earnings; Sanyo may have
falsified its fiscal 2003 earnings report, writing off far fewer
losses than its subsidiaries had and falsely reporting a
profit when it was in the red.

cleaning
dressing
screening
waxing
3. Price discrepancies, although at odds with mainstream
finance, are persistent phenomena in financial markets;
these apparent mispricings lead to the presence of ,
who aim to exploit the resulting profit opportunities, but
whose role remains controversial.

arbitrageurs
arbitrators
saboteurs
segregators
4. While we anticipate that a supplemental for FY07 will

ultimately be signed into law, we expect uncertainty
surrounding the level of DoD funding will continue, and as
a result, we have less into our next fiscal year than
we normally would have at this point in the year.

assurance
confidence
security
visibility
5. "One of the reasons we have a healthcare crisis is
because, as a consumer, I don't have that much in
the game," said Arkansas GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee,
"there needs to be a transformation from a third-party
insurance system to more financial participation by the
patient."

clout
coin
heart
skin
6. A lot of investors and fund managers sold the stock only
to buy it a few days later at lower prices; but there is
brokerage to be paid on both the transactions (while
buying and selling), so unless the fund manager will make
a lot of money on that stock, may not be all that
prudent after all.

churning
crossing
shuffling

swinging
7. The five largest music companies and music retailers
agreed to pay $67.4 million to settle a lawsuit over alleged
price in the late 1990s; prosecutors said that the
industry kept consumer CD prices artificially high between
1995 and 2000 with a practice known as 'minimum-
advertised pricing'.

fixing
freezing
setting
squeezing
8. Insiders are an obvious target for policies designed to
provide information security, because they have legitimate
uses for communication channels that can also be used to
breach security; by restricting the use of these channels,
the organisation can create barriers to information

bondage
breakage
leakage
spillage
9. pitch is a quick and concise way to communicate
who you are, what you do, and why you do it better; it's
more than a mission statement — it's understanding your
business in a way that gets people excited, involved, and
thinking.

A doorway
An alley

An elevator
A sidewalk
10. If a trader is in a long position on a currency pair and
the exchange rate moves upward in her favor a bit but fails
to move past a key resistance level she was expecting as
a catalyst for further movement, the trader would probably
deem the trade on a failure and close it out for
whatever profit had been earned.

dead
down
flat
frozen