Business Vocabulary

Tell us something about your ..... in the engineering industry?

Our office is a bustling ..... of activity.

Prudential's new chief executive Mark Tucker is to receive a ..... hello of almost 500,000; Tucker, who was poached from his position as finance director at retail bank HBOS earlier this year, will be paid a special guaranteed bonus of 475,000, which the Prudential declared is a 'one-off'.

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 ......

The reality is that any company bent on a takeover should be wary of losing business and clients because there may well be a mass ..... of customers.

Form ..... is a quarterly report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that includes unaudited financial statements and provides a continuing view of the company's financial position during the year; it must be filed for each of the first three quarters of the company's fiscal year.

In the first place we'd have no money to buy food and we'd probably ......

Financial institutions will be able to ..... Yamashita technology in new ways because of NEC's solid relationship with its customers' enterprises.

Some large companies required government ..... in order to evade bankruptcy during the recent recession.

People use diagrams and graphs to show ..... over periods of time.