free market
/fɹˈiː mˈɑːɹkɪt/
nounan economic system that is not operated by the government rather by free competition and supply and demand
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stock exchange
/stˈɑːk ɛkstʃˈeɪndʒ/
nouna place in which shares and stocks are traded
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1. Facebook, for example, has earned sixteen billion dollars from it's listing on the Stock Exchange.
2. Unlike a normal market in which goods can be touched and taken home on the Stock Exchange only virtual goods are available.
3. Stock Exchange is in other countries also have there own indices.
4. Philip Olson and Julia-Lorenz Olson guide you through the complex world of personal finance, from the kitchen table to the Stock Exchange.
5. His 1966 paper Market Making and Reversal on the Stock Exchange is considered the first paper on statistical arbitrage and market microstructure.
bankrupt
/ˈbæŋkɹəpt/
adjective(of organizations or people) legally declared as unable to pay their debts to creditors
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1. The accident and subsequent salvage operation bankrupted the Great Western Steamship company.
2. The company went bankrupt.
3. The factory goes bankrupt.
4. This country is functionally bankrupt.
5. You guys bankrupted the bank.
broke
/ˈbɹoʊk/
adjectivenot having any money
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1. Broke my heart.
2. Broke a stool.
3. Broke many norms of the standard conventions for the first time.
4. No! - Broke.
5. - Broke my foot.
stake
/ˈsteɪk/
nounan amount of money invested in a business; a share or part in a business, system, etc. that may yield money
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1. Across the Atlantic, a new nation staked its claim for independence on the basis of these ideas.
2. His campaign is staking survival on his strength with black voters.
3. - Stakes are high.
4. Many brands stake their reputations in the country of origin.
5. Stake down the four corners of the tent.
market economy
/mˈɑːɹkɪt ɪkˈɑːnəmi/
nounan economic system in which private businesses determine production, prices, and salaries not the government
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1. These were the so-called yeoman farmers who lived self-sufficiently, raised their own food, and purchased very little in the Market Economy.
earnings
/ˈɝnɪŋz/
nounmoney received for work done or services provided
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1. If I'm paying $10 today for $2 of earnings in 2009, the Price to Earnings of 5 for Company A. Well, for Company B, it's a Price to Earnings 20 divided by 4.
2. Challenging and American Airlines Ceo Doug Parker said during an EARNINGS call that testing is UNNECESSARY because Domestic Nights are SAFE.
3. The CLOROX president confirming in a company EARNINGS call they will not be able to restock the sought after CLEANING products until NEXT year.
4. Rebecca, Goldman Sachs said they expected ZERO earnings growth for AMERICAN companies
5. The next tab over from the Charts tab is the Earnings tab.
incentive
/ˌɪnˈsɛnɪv/, /ˌɪnˈsɛntɪv/
nouna payment or concession to encourage someone to do something specific
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1. Innovation follows incentives.
2. Motivation came through incentives.
3. Incentives matter.
4. The other tool is incentives.
5. Incentives start the habit.
to hoard
/ˈhɔɹd/
verbto gather and store a large supply of food, money, etc., usually somewhere secret
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1. Initially, consumers hoarded items like rice, beans and frozen foods.
2. - To hoard vaccines.
3. The hoard is a symbol for a world beyond human control, like the tides, or the seasons, or new UWE Boll movies.
4. So is hoarding food.
5. Low key kinda hoard them.
extravagant
/ɛkˈstɹævəɡənt/
adjectivecosting a lot of money, more than the necessary or affordable amount
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1. It's extravagant.
2. She was extreme, extravagant.
3. It’s very extravagant.
4. This is extravagant!
5. He's very extravagant.
to fluctuate
/ˈfɫəktʃəˌweɪt/
verbto rise and fall continuously in amount, quality, size, etc.
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1. Fluctuates means changes in level or amount.
2. Fluctuates means changes in level or amount.
3. Its sales price will fluctuate.
4. Another reason behind hair thinning and loss is fluctuating thyroid and insulin levels.
5. Fluctuating blood glucose results in rapid changes of mood.
to freeze
/ˈfɹiz/
verbto legally prevent money, property, or a bank account from being used or sold
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1. Freeze this frame.
2. [dramatic music] Freeze this frame.
3. Also, quiche freezes surprisingly well.
4. Freeze the container.
5. My chest is getting freeze.
to level out
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to reach a state of balance and stability after a time of rising or falling
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1. We have leveled out now.
2. The salt really leveled out.
3. The ditch is going to level out.
4. This can level out your blood pressure and cholesterol.
5. Level out areas where excess water could collect.
fundraising
/ˈfənˌdɹeɪsɪŋ/
nounthe provision of financial aid for something such as a charity or cause, usually through holding special events
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1. In the days before that, political parties did a lot of fundraising.
2. Trump made that claim to the Annual National Republican Congressional Committee fundraising dinner.
3. The people stepped up their fundraising efforts.
4. Fundraising was not an easy task.
5. We had done some fundraising for Governor Romney.
depression
/dɪˈpɹɛʃən/
nouna time of little economic activity and high unemployment, which lasts for a long time
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1. Too much black bile, for example, causes depression.
2. Depression can really distort your perception about your future.
3. Even famous people have depression, like Kristen Bell, the star of The Good Place.
4. Depression came.
5. For example, 25% of cancer patients experience depression.
equilibrium
/ˌikwəˈɫɪbɹiəm/
nouna balanced state between opposing influences or powers
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1. Equilibrium is restored.
2. So equilibrium is this very involved thing.
3. This seemingly innocent detail of my modeling technique threw up another equilibrium.
4. So backward induction just gives us this equilibrium.
5. Indeed, most people in the class played that equilibrium just now.
monopoly
/məˈnɑpəɫi/
nounthe total control of a business or of the supply of something, which makes other rivals unable to compete; a commodity or service that is controlled using this method
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1. Monopolies stifle innovation.
2. Of course these big tech companies are monopolies.
3. Monopoly is a board game.
4. So the public has shared its monopoly.
5. Basically the monopolies have total market power.
merger
/ˈmɝdʒɝ/
nounthe joining of two companies or organizations together to form a larger one
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1. Tech mergers have faced particular scrutiny, especially in congressional hearings.
2. The merger was a hit.
3. And the mergers actually solved the other mystery, too.
4. The merger fell through.
5. Mergers just face too many difficulties and uncertainties.
donor
/ˈdoʊnɝ/
nounsomeone or something that gives money, clothes, etc. to a charity for free
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1. We compensate donors for their time and their commitment to the program.
2. Donors actually get letters from the kids in the classroom.
3. Do donors experience long-term after-effects?
4. Living donors can spare one kidney, one lung, a piece of liver, pancreas, intestine, or stem cells.
5. The donors provide post-conflict aid.
index
/ˈɪndɛks/
nouna system that provides the amount of prices, costs, etc. so that one can compare them with their previous value
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1. Unemployment rose, and a new economic statistic was born: the misery index, the combination of unemployment and inflation.
2. Index funds include both index mutual funds and index exchange-traded funds, or ETFs.
3. So out of 505 stocks, those 10 stocks sway the index more.
4. This index tracks the implied volatility for the S&P 500 index options.
5. Thirdly, index funds have very low fees.
portfolio
/pɔɹtˈfoʊɫiˌoʊ/
nouna group of shares that a person or organization owns
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1. So I put portfolios together.
2. Portfolios are relevant in every field.
3. Portfolios are relevant in every field.
4. You now have a broader portfolio after a sojourn in Seattle in a similar job.
5. So racism also had a tangible effect on his mortgage-- on his asset, sort of, portfolio.
NFC
noun
a technology that allows short-range data transfer between cell phones and other electronic devices to do things such as paying for a purchase, etc.
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1. And, a high NFC also has some significant benefits.
2. Turn on the NFC.
3. So what's an NFC tag?
4. The NFC coil comes off as well.
5. Even the battery of Anna’s new smartphone contains an NFC chip.
buck
/ˈbək/
nounone dollar
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1. - Some people go buck wild.
2. Now, 'bucks' is just an informal casual word for dollars.
3. Radio has somehow kind of bucked the trend.
4. In comparison, a company like Fairphone is bucking this trend.
5. One amputation costs us five bucks.
nickel
/ˈnɪkəɫ/
nouna five-cent coin of Canada and the US
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1. Digital imaging might make a nickel.
2. So it has nickel iron.
3. And this color is representing the nickel.
4. So we have this nickel right here
5. So your faces are nickel chrome.
dime
/ˈdaɪm/
nouna ten-cent coin of Canada and the US
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1. Found another dime.
2. So put another dime in the jukebox, baby.
3. Here, take this dime!
4. Place the dime in the center.
5. Never got a dime.
peak
/ˈpik/
nounthe stage or point of highest quality, activity, success, intensity, etc.
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1. Snow dusted peaks.
2. Smartphones peaked then.
3. The HIV epidemic peaked.
4. North Sea oil and gas production peaked years ago.
5. My career basically peaked here.
worthless
/ˈwɝθɫəs/
adjectiveof no real value, use, or importance
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1. So polls are worthless?
2. The currency is worthless.
3. Your class was worthless.
4. Of course, though, space savings without adequate cooling is worthless.
5. That front expiration expires worthless.
costly
/ˈkɑstɫi/, /ˈkɔstɫi/
adjectivecosting much money, often more than one is willing to pay
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1. Pensions and raw goods got too costly.
2. Camel milk is costly.
3. Credit is costly.
4. Lapses of character are far more costly.
5. Lapses of character are far more costly.
cut
/ˈkət/
nouna share in something monetary
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1. How can you cut the blob entirely into acute triangles and stop it from destroying the planet?
2. [Crew Member] Cut the bun! -
3. - Cut my toe nails too.
4. - Cut your toe nails?
5. This cheekbone could cut diamonds!
prepaid
/pɹiˈpeɪd/
adjectivealready paid for
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1. Then, when you're done, look: prepaid envelopes.
2. And this is not an unlocked one, mind you, it is through a prepaid carrier.
3. and then they give you a prepaid shipping package to ship them back so you're recycling your air pods
4. So we could give this a name of various sorts, bearable prepaid forward contract, or whatever else.
5. So I already prepaid it.
priceless
/ˈpɹaɪsɫəs/
adjectiveof great value or importance
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1. This work is priceless.
2. The freedom is priceless.
3. Life is priceless.
4. The benefits of therapy are priceless.
5. That baby's reaction is priceless.
to privatize
/ˈpɹɪvəˌtaɪz/
verbto change the ownership of an industry, service, or business from public to private
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1. Privatize it.
2. Okay, privatizing the military.
3. Privatizing eminent domain in the US.
4. Under President Salinas, the government privatized Mexican banks.
5. - We just privatize our sexuality.
quotation
/kwoʊˈteɪʃən/
nouna statement indicating the cost of a specific service or piece of work
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1. So here's a quotation from the article.
2. The book has a lot of prayers, quotations from scripture.
3. I actually have a quotation here.
4. All quotations were adapted for this programme.
5. I have a quotation here from my commenter, Jeremy Stein.
subsidy
/ˈsəbsɪdi/
nounan amount of money that a government or organization pays to lower the costs of producing goods or providing services so that prices do not increase
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1. Direct subsidies are another issue.
2. Two states, one metro area, but those states offer subsidies for job creation.
3. You can give subsidies.
4. Subsidies are available for people with low incomes.
5. Externalized cost number one, subsidies to animal farmers.
tariff
/ˈtɛɹəf/
nouna tax paid on goods imported or exported
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1. Tariffs were completely boneheaded.
2. Tariffs are really the big bazooka in the trade world.
3. For the rest of 2018 the two countries would raise tariffs back and forth.
4. He upped tariffs.
5. Tariffs announced by the Trump administration.
accountancy
/əˈkaʊntənsi/
nounan accountant's profession or tasks
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1. Black folks were doing that little bit better in school now, but when you look at who working class black folk in Britain are particularly West Africans, were essentially comparing the Children of university educated West African civil servants who happened to have ended up in the hood because of discrimination, even though they've got degrees in engineering or accountancy or whatever is from back in Ghana and Nigeria.
2. If someone has a natural aptitude for accountancy, it makes no sense for them to spend a considerable part of each day trying also to make cheese, to sew their own trousers or to learn to play violin sonatas.
3. Well I spent the first few years of my career in accountancy.
4. And that's one of the reasons why Arthur Andersen chose to launch Accenture rather than try to persuade the world that Andersen's could stand for something other than accountancy.
to back
/ˈbæk/
verbto give emotional or financial support to someone or something
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1. A lot of Scottish Americans go back to Scotland as tourists.
2. Jake went back to his apartment.
3. But in the afternoon, some customers come back.
4. This is back when he was still mining in his spare time.
5. In the lions' territory, The cubs' father arrives back from his sojourn.
to consolidate
/kənˈsɑɫɪˌdeɪt/
verbto merge several financial accounts, debts, funds, into one
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1. The entire health system was consolidating.
2. Rather than overextend, the crusaders consolidated their position.
3. This arrangement consolidated the east-west shipping route as the most important artery of world trade and one of the best indicators of the health of the world economy.
4. He was consolidating power.
5. And the evolution of banking in the nineteenth century further consolidates power.
to deposit
/dəˈpɑzɪt/, /dɪˈpɑzət/
verbto put an amount of money or other item of value into a bank account
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1. The coal deposits of Britain match deposits in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern North America.
2. These beetle deposit their eggs in candlenut trees.
3. MUHAMMAD YUNUS: Take deposits.
4. - Deposit your bibs.
5. - Deposited the majority of his intelligence.