Business Practice

• advance
• affairs
• alien corporation
• amalgamation
• annual report
• annual review
• ante
• application
• articles of incorporation
• assembly line
• assignment
• bailout
• bankroll
• bankruptcy
• belly up
• big business
• board of directors
• bonus
• bottom line
• bubble company
• budget
• budgeting
• business
• buyout
• capital-intensive
• capitalization
• cash cow
• cash flow
• ceiling
• channels
• Chapter 11
• charger
• close
• closed corporation
• co-op
• collapsible corporation
• collection division
• collusion
• commission
• compagnie
• company
• concern
• concession
• conglomerate
• consideration
• consolidation
• consortium
• contract
• controlling interest
• corner
• corporate veil
• corporation
• cost overrun
• cost-effective
• cottage industry
• crapshoot
• cut a check
• cutback
• dba
• deal
• dealings
• diminishing returns
• dissolution
• diversification
• divestiture
• dividend
• economize
• endowment
• enterprise
• escalator clause
• establishment
• fee
• firm
• Fortune 500
• foundation
• franchise
• funding
• go public
• golden parachute
• goodwill
• ground floor
• growth area
• growth company
• grubstake
• hardball
• headhunting
• holding company
• home office
• honorium
• horizontal merger
• house
• incentives
• industry
• institution
• interlocking directorates
• investment
• labor-intensive
• license
• liquidation
• lose one's shirt
• management
• market research
• market share
• memo to the file
• memorandum
• merger
• mommy track
• moneymaker
• multinational corporation
• nonprofit corporation
• number-cruncher
• operating expenses
• operations research
• organization
• overbudget
• overhead
• Pac-Man defense
• Parkinson's law
• parlay
• partnership
• patent
• pension fund
• perk
• perquisite
• personnel
• Peter Principle
• petty cash
• philanthropy
• plant
• poison pill
• positioning
• privately held corporation
• profit motive
• prospectus
• proxy fight
• public corporation
• public relations
• public-service corporation
• quality assurance
• quality control
• realize
• receivership
• reinvest
• retainer
• royalty
• seed money
• sole proprietorship
• speculation
• spin-off
• staff
• start-up company
• start-up expenses
• stock
• subcontract
• subsidiary
• sunrise industry
• sunset industry
• syndicate
• syndication
• take a bath
• takeover
• tender
• trade association
• trade convention
• undercapitalized
• undertaking
• underwrite
• up-front
• upside
• ventue
• venture capitalism
• vertical merger
• wheel and deal
• white knight
• windfall profit
• working capital
• working vacation