This page gathers the 6,342 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Business”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 29 of 64: from “initial public offering” to “jeetery”.
- initial public offering noun The first offering to members of the public of stock in a company, normally followed by a listing of that stock on a stock exchange.
- initial reject noun An item that is not terminally defective but fails to meet the manufacturer's technical standards for sale through its normal retail…
- initial setting time noun Of concrete, the moment in time that cement turns into paste after mixing with water and begins to lose its plasticity.
- injection noun The act of inserting materials like concrete grout or gravel by using high pressure pumps.
- inlead verb To lead into; conduct.
- innage noun The amount of fuel remaining in the fuel tanks of an aircraft following a flight.
- inner circle noun A small, exclusive group of people close to the center of power who control a movement, organization, political party, etc.
- inner marker noun A type of marker beacon placed to indicate when an aircraft crosses the runway threshold of a Category II or Category III ILS or IGS…
- innovator noun An early adopter.
- inorganic adj Not generated by the ranking algorithms of a search engine, but deliberately by promotional techniques.
- inpatriate noun An employee of a multinational company who is from a foreign country, but is transferred from a foreign subsidiary to the corporation’s…
- input noun An input jack.
- insertion order noun A document that specifies the dates and scope of a media buy. Used in print, online, and broadcast media.
- inset noun An opening partway down a shaft, giving access to the intermediate levels.
- inshell adj (of nuts, eggs, shellfish) Not removed from the shell.
- inside information noun Information obtained by or from a person in a position of trust (a director, an employee, a consultant) that affects the price of publicly…
- inside lag noun The amount of time it takes for the government or the central bank to respond to a shock in the economy.
- inside loop noun An aerobatic maneuver in which a vertical circle is entered from straight and erect level flight, with a positive pitching movement used at…
- inside salesman noun A sales representative employed by a retail or wholesale vendor who works on the premises of his or her employer, transacting with…
- insider trade noun The illegal trade of a security of a publicly held company by a person who has privileged access to information concerning the company's…
- insider trading noun The illegal trading of a public company's stock or other securities based on material, nonpublic information about the company.
- insight noun Knowledge (usually derived from consumer understanding) that a company applies in order to make a product or brand perform better and be…
- insolvency noun The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay their…
- installment noun Any of a series of portions of a debt or sum of money, which portions may or may not be equal in amount (depending in part on whether the…
- installment loan noun A loan that is repaid over time with a set number of regularly scheduled payments, and may or may not include a balloon payment.
- instrument noun Ellipsis of flight instrument.
- instrument approach noun An approach (pre-landing procedure) using flight instruments for some or all navigation to the landing airport and runway, as opposed to…
- instrument landing system noun A collection of radio navigation aids (always including a localizer and glideslope, and often one to three marker beacons as well) used by…
- insulation noun a medium in which it is possible to maintain an electrical field with little supply of energy from additional sources.
- insultant noun A consultant who is willing to criticise the organisation that they work for.
- insurance broker noun One who solicits or negotiates insurance policies from various insurers on behalf of clients who are buying insurance.
- insurance policy noun A legal document outlining a particular insurance cover for an insured entity for a given risk.
- insured noun The person or persons whose interests are protected by an insurance policy.
- intangible asset noun Any valuable property of a business that is not a physical by nature, including intellectual property, customer lists, and goodwill.…
- intarsia noun A knitted design resembling a mosaic.
- integration time noun Of an electronic system, the period of time in which a noisy signal is averaged so as to improve the signal-to-noise ratio.
- integrity noun The ability of systems to provide timely warnings to users when they should not be used for navigation.
- intensive adj Of agriculture: increasing the productivity of an area of land.
- intensive farming noun An industrial approach to farming, characterized by a low fallow ratio and high use of inputs such as capital, labour, agrochemicals and…
- interaxis adj Pertaining to the perpendicularity (or deviation therefrom) of a set of resolver windings when another set of windings is excited.
- intercept noun A form of market research where consumers are intercepted and interviewed in a retail store or mall.
- interconnect noun An interconnection.
- interdome noun The interstitial space between the inner and outer shells of a dome or cupola.
- interduce noun An intertie.
- interest noun The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the…
- interest rate collar noun A derivative strategy that combines an interest rate cap and floor to limit interest rate fluctuations on variable-rate loans or…
- interest rate swap noun A contract to exchange the benefit of one interest rate with another. Often a fixed interest rate is exchanged for a variable rate so as to…
- interface verb To meet for discussion.
- interjoist noun The space or interval between two joists.
- interlace noun A technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal primarily on CRT devices without consuming extra bandwidth.
- interlayment noun a felt, metal, or membrane sheet material used between courses of steep-slope roofing to improve the weather and water-shedding…
- intermediate switch noun A light switch with two pairs of two terminals, which can be switched between straight-through or swapped wiring. Typically used as part of…
- internalize verb To transfer stocks between brokers within an organization, rather than through the exchange.
- international Fisher effect noun The hypothesis that the differences in nominal interest rates reflect expected changes in the spot exchange rate between countries.
- interplane adj Between the planes (wings) of a biplane or multiplane.
- interplant adj Between manufacturing plants or divisions.
- interposer noun An electrical interface between one connection or socket and another, used to spread a connection to a wider pitch or to reroute it.
- interrupt noun An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
- interstage noun The structure, generally containing mechanical components and instruments but no engines or fuel tanks, connecting the top of a stage of a…
- interstitial noun A web page, usually carrying advertising, displayed when leaving one content page for another.
- intertie noun In any framed work, a horizontal tie other than sill and plate or other principal ties, securing uprights to one another.
- intrapreneur noun A person employed to work independently within a company in order to introduce innovation and to revitalize and diversify its business.
- intrinsic value noun The real value of something, calculated with regard to an inherent, objective measure, which may not take into account its market value or…
- invasion stripes noun A series of alternating black and white stripes painted on the fuselages and wings of Allied aircraft, for the purpose of increased…
- invasive exotic noun A species or an individual of a species that is foreign to an environment and that, when introduced to that environment, outcompetes native…
- inventoriable adj Of costs: being those directly associated with the manufacture of products to be sold.
- inverter noun A power inverter.
- invertor noun A device that converts direct current into alternating current.
- investment noun A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.
- investment bank noun A financial institution that deals with raising capital, trading in securities and managing corporate mergers and acquisitions.
- investment fund noun A fund consisting of investments made by a group of people and managed by a professional investment manager.
- investment strategy noun set of rules, behaviors or procedures, designed to guide an investor's selection of an investment portfolio
- invisible trade noun An international transaction not involving tangible goods, but services; the import and export of such services between nations.
- invoice price noun The amount a dealer or retailer initially pays the manufacturer or supplier for a product before adding their markup.
- IOM soybean noun A high-quality, food-grade soybean that is grown, processed, and sourced from the state of Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan.
- ion engine noun a type of spacecraft propulsion, whereby electric fields accelerate ions out the exhaust to provide motive force
- iota noun A bank account that earns interest and pays it to a third party, generally a charity; the principal is typically being held in escrow by…
- iris noun A constricted opening in the path inside a waveguide, used to form a resonator.
- iron butterfly noun A combination of four options, including two calls and two puts, that replicates the payoff of a butterfly.
- iron condor noun A combination of four options, including both calls and puts, that yields the same payoff as a condor.
- irredeemable noun A financial instrument that cannot be freely redeemed.
- irrevocable letter of credit noun A written commitment issued by a bank to pay a specified amount of money to a beneficiary, provided that certain conditions are met.
- isohume noun An isoline connecting places in which the coal seam has equal moisture content.
- issue noun Any financial instrument issued by a company.
- issue date noun The day or date on which a company issues an agreement or contract.
- Italian noun Ellipsis of Italian cloth.
- item journal noun A journal to adjust inventory in connection with purchases, sales, and positive and negative adjustments.
- itemizer noun One who makes itemized deductions on a tax return.
- izakaya noun A Japanese restaurant outside of Japan; used in the naming or styling of the restaurant.
- jack noun A wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
- jack in verb To insert an electronic coupling into a receptacle; to connect to something, whether involving a physical medium or not.
- jackanapes noun A small pulley which keeps a rope in line when lifting ore, water, etc., from a mine.
- jackhole noun A hole that is created using a jack or wedge.
- jackpot noun A concentration of surface wood or fuel.
- jam-spreading noun The practice of spreading resources or costs evenly, and thus thinly (rather than concentrating them in one area).
- jamb noun Either of the vertical components that form the side of an opening in a wall, such as that of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace.
- January effect noun A hypothetical seasonal anomaly in the financial market where securities' prices increase in the month of January more than in any other…
- jeep carrier noun A general purpose aircraft carrier, used in a variety of ways (hence 'general purpose', "GP" or jeep), such as aircraft transport ship…
- jeet noun An investor who is extremely risk-averse and will sell off their holdings at the slightest hint of a downturn.
- jeetery noun The practice of an investor who sells off their holdings at the slightest hint of a downturn.