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Business & Career Vocabulary List: 163 Words with Definitions
Meetings, negotiations, budgets, job interviews and office email. This is the Business & Career topic pack inside Word Hype, spanning A1 to C2 and shared with the TOEIC exam pool.
| Word | Definition | Play |
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| Advocate | A person who publicly supports an idea or cause. | Play ▶ |
| Agency | A business that arranges services for others. | Play ▶ |
| Agenda | A list of subjects to discuss at a meeting. | Play ▶ |
| Agent | A person who acts for someone else in business. | Play ▶ |
| Amend | To change a document or law to improve it. | Play ▶ |
| Annual | Happening once every year. | Play ▶ |
| Appoint | To choose someone officially for a job or duty. | Play ▶ |
| Approve | To officially accept or agree to something. | Play ▶ |
| Assert | To say firmly that something is true. | Play ▶ |
| Assign | To give someone a particular job or task. | Play ▶ |
| Baker | A person who makes bread and cakes. | Play ▶ |
| Bank | A place that keeps people's money safe. | Play ▶ |
| Banker | Someone whose job is handling savings, loans, and money accounts.Someone whose job involves managing money. | Play ▶ |
| Bargain | Something bought for less than its usual price. | Play ▶ |
| Behalf | Used in a phrase meaning acting for another person. | Play ▶ |
| Benefit | An advantage or profit gained from something.Receive an advantage. | Play ▶ |
| Borrow | To use something and give it back later. | Play ▶ |
| Boss | The person in charge of workers. | Play ▶ |
| Budget | An estimate of income and expenditure.Provided at a low price. | Play ▶ |
| Bureau | An office or department that provides a service. | Play ▶ |
| Cabinet | A piece of furniture with doors and shelves for storing things. | Play ▶ |
| Cancel | Decide that an organized event will not take place.Annul or make void. | Play ▶ |
| Capacity | The largest amount that something can hold. | Play ▶ |
| Capital | The city where a country's government is based. | Play ▶ |
| Cartel | A group of businesses that agree to control prices or supply. | Play ▶ |
| Cash | Coins and paper money you can hold. | Play ▶ |
| Charge | Demand an amount as a price.Accuse someone of an offense. | Play ▶ |
| Chief | A person who is in charge.A person who exercises control over workers. | Play ▶ |
| Claim | To say that something is true or belongs to you.To ask for money you think you should get. | Play ▶ |
| Commence | To begin an activity or event. | Play ▶ |
| Company | A business that sells goods or services. | Play ▶ |
| Consent | Permission for something to happen. | Play ▶ |
| Convict | To officially find someone guilty of a crime in court. | Play ▶ |
| Costly | Very expensive. | Play ▶ |
| Courts | The places where legal trials happen.Places to play sports like tennis or basketball. | Play ▶ |
| Credit | An arrangement to buy things now and pay later.Praise for something you have done well. | Play ▶ |
| Customer | A person who buys things in a shop. | Play ▶ |
| Decline | To become smaller, weaker, or less. | Play ▶ |
| Deficit | The amount by which spending is greater than income. | Play ▶ |
| Delegate | To give part of your work or authority to someone else. | Play ▶ |
| Demand | The need or desire that people have for a product.To ask for something very strongly. | Play ▶ |
| Deputy | A person who helps or acts for a boss.The second most important person in a group. | Play ▶ |
| Desk | A table where you sit and work. | Play ▶ |
| Dismiss | To decide that an idea is not worth considering. | Play ▶ |
| Dispute | A serious disagreement. | Play ▶ |
| Doctor | A person who helps sick people get better. | Play ▶ |
| Donate | To give money or things to help others. | Play ▶ |
| Driver | A person who controls a car or a bus. | Play ▶ |
| Duties | Things you must do for your job or because it is right.Jobs that you have to do. | Play ▶ |
| Earned | Got money by working.Got something because you worked hard for it. | Play ▶ |
| Eligible | Allowed to do or receive something under the rules. | Play ▶ |
| Employ | To pay someone to work for you.To use something. | Play ▶ |
| Estate | All the money and property owned by a person.A large area of land in the country. | Play ▶ |
| Estimate | A rough calculation of an amount or cost. | Play ▶ |
| Execute | To carry out a plan or instruction. | Play ▶ |
| Expand | To become bigger or make something bigger.To add more details to a story. | Play ▶ |
| Exploit | To use a person unfairly for your own benefit. | Play ▶ |
| Export | To send goods to another country to sell them.A product sold to a different country. | Play ▶ |
| Facilitate | To make an activity or process easier. | Play ▶ |
| Factory | A big building where machines make things. | Play ▶ |
| Farmer | A person who grows food and keeps animals. | Play ▶ |
| Feasible | Possible to do with the time and resources available. | Play ▶ |
| Federal | Relating to the central government of a group of states. | Play ▶ |
| Filing | Putting documents into folders to keep them organized.Smoothing the edge of your nails with a tool. | Play ▶ |
| Firing | Making someone leave their job. | Play ▶ |
| Fiscal | Connected with money, taxes, and government.About public money. | Play ▶ |
| Fluctuate | To rise and fall repeatedly. | Play ▶ |
| Forecast | To say what is likely to happen using available information. | Play ▶ |
| Formal | Following official rules or a serious style. | Play ▶ |
| Frugal | Careful to avoid wasting money or resources. | Play ▶ |
| Govern | To rule or control a country. | Play ▶ |
| Guarantee | A firm promise that something will happen or meet a standard. | Play ▶ |
| Guideline | Advice about how to do something. | Play ▶ |
| Hierarchy | A system that ranks people or things from highest to lowest. | Play ▶ |
| Hiring | Giving someone a job. | Play ▶ |
| Implement | To put a plan or decision into action. | Play ▶ |
| Import | To bring products into a country from another country. | Play ▶ |
| Impose | To force people to accept a rule or decision. | Play ▶ |
| Incentive | Something that encourages a person to act. | Play ▶ |
| Income | Money that you earn from your job. | Play ▶ |
| Initiate | To cause a process or activity to begin. | Play ▶ |
| Invest | To put money into something, hoping to earn more. | Play ▶ |
| Judicial | Related to courts and judges. | Play ▶ |
| Labor | Work that requires physical or mental effort. | Play ▶ |
| Lawyer | A person trained to give advice about the law. | Play ▶ |
| Leader | The person who guides or commands a group.The principal player in a music group. | Play ▶ |
| Legitimate | Allowed by law or accepted rules. | Play ▶ |
| Letter | A written message on paper that you post. | Play ▶ |
| Liability | Legal responsibility for something, especially harm or a debt. | Play ▶ |
| Liable | Legally responsible for something. | Play ▶ |
| Maintain | To keep something in good condition. | Play ▶ |
| Manage | Control or organize people, work, or resources. | Play ▶ |
| Margin | The edge or border of something.An amount by which a thing is won or falls short. | Play ▶ |
| Marginal | Very small in size or importance. | Play ▶ |
| Market | A place where people buy and sell things. | Play ▶ |
| Maturity | The state of being fully grown or developed. | Play ▶ |
| Maximize | To increase something as much as possible. | Play ▶ |
| Mediate | To help people in a disagreement reach an agreement. | Play ▶ |
| Meeting | People come together to talk about work. | Play ▶ |
| Minimize | To reduce something to the smallest possible amount. | Play ▶ |
| Money | Coins and paper you use to buy things. | Play ▶ |
| Monopoly | Complete control of a market by one seller. | Play ▶ |
| Motivate | To give someone a reason or desire to act. | Play ▶ |
| Nurse | A person who takes care of sick people. | Play ▶ |
| Occupation | The work a person does for a living. | Play ▶ |
| Office | A room or building where people work at desks.An important job in a government. | Play ▶ |
| Offset | To balance the effect of something with an opposite effect. | Play ▶ |
| Outcome | The final result of an action or event. | Play ▶ |
| Outset | The beginning of an activity or process. | Play ▶ |
| Owner | A person who something belongs to. | Play ▶ |
| Parity | The state of being equal in value, rank, or status. | Play ▶ |
| Payment | Money given to pay for something. | Play ▶ |
| Pilot | A person who flies a plane. | Play ▶ |
| Police | People who keep a town safe from bad people. | Play ▶ |
| Policy | A plan or set of rules used to guide decisions. | Play ▶ |
| Potential | The possibility of developing or succeeding in the future. | Play ▶ |
| Pragmatic | Focused on what works in practice. | Play ▶ |
| Price | The amount of money you pay for something. | Play ▶ |
| Priority | Something that should be dealt with before other things. | Play ▶ |
| Profit | Money left after a business has paid its costs. | Play ▶ |
| Project | A planned piece of work with a particular goal. | Play ▶ |
| Prospect | The possibility that something will happen. | Play ▶ |
| Proxy | A person allowed to act for someone else. | Play ▶ |
| Ratify | To give formal approval to an agreement. | Play ▶ |
| Recession | A period when the economy shrinks and business activity falls. | Play ▶ |
| Recruit | To find and bring new people into a team or organization. | Play ▶ |
| Retail | The sale of goods directly to the people who use them. | Play ▶ |
| Salary | Money you are paid regularly for your job. | Play ▶ |
| Sanction | Official permission or approval. | Play ▶ |
| Saving | A reduction in the money, time, or effort needed. | Play ▶ |
| Scarcity | A situation in which there is not enough of something. | Play ▶ |
| Schedule | A plan showing when activities will happen. | Play ▶ |
| Scheme | A detailed plan for achieving a purpose. | Play ▶ |
| Scrutiny | Very careful and detailed examination. | Play ▶ |
| Sector | One part of a country's economy, such as farming or banking. | Play ▶ |
| Seller | A person or business that offers things for others to buy. | Play ▶ |
| Shop | A small place where people sell things. | Play ▶ |
| Stock | Goods a shop has available to sell. | Play ▶ |
| Strategic | Related to plans for reaching a long-term goal. | Play ▶ |
| Subsidy | Money given by a government to support an activity or service. | Play ▶ |
| Success | Achieving something you hoped or planned to do. | Play ▶ |
| Supply | An amount of something available for use. | Play ▶ |
| Surplus | An amount left after needs have been met. | Play ▶ |
| Suspend | To stop an activity for a period of time. | Play ▶ |
| Sustain | To keep something going over time. | Play ▶ |
| Target | A person, object, or place selected as the aim of an attack.Select as an object of attention or attack. | Play ▶ |
| Tariff | A tax on goods entering or leaving a country. | Play ▶ |
| Teller | A bank worker who receives and pays out money. | Play ▶ |
| Temporary | Lasting for a limited time. | Play ▶ |
| Tenure | The period during which someone holds a job or position. | Play ▶ |
| Terminate | To bring something to an end. | Play ▶ |
| Trader | A person who buys and sells goods. | Play ▶ |
| Undertake | To take responsibility for doing a task. | Play ▶ |
| Unpaid | Not given money for work that has been done. | Play ▶ |
| Utilize | To use something for a practical purpose. | Play ▶ |
| Vendor | A person or company that sells goods or services. | Play ▶ |
| Visionary | A person with bold ideas about a better future. | Play ▶ |
| Waiter | A person who brings food to your table. | Play ▶ |
| Warrant | An official document allowing police to search or arrest someone. | Play ▶ |
| Wealth | A large amount of money or valuable possessions. | Play ▶ |
| Withdraw | To take money out of an account. | Play ▶ |
| Worker | A person who does a job to earn money.Someone who puts a lot of effort into their job. | Play ▶ |
| Yielding | Soft enough to bend or give way under pressure. | Play ▶ |