Vocabulary 10

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Questions 1-15.
1. When a company goes out of business, it is said to ...
a. break down b. trade down c. open the books d. shut up shop
2. A way to say that something is dead is to say it has given up....
a. the bucket b. the ghost c. with life d. for altogether
3. When you change the way that you repay debts, this is called
a. coughing up b. refinancing c. defaulting d. bouncing
4. A deal where you must say yes or no, but you cannot change anything is called a...
a. package deal b. bargain c. complete deal d. devil's deal
5. People who are owed money are called ..
a. baliffs b. depositors c. dealers d. creditors
6. A project which is the idea of one person is called that person's ...
a. incubus b. albatross c. thoughtform d. brainchild
7. A company's idea of how it will make money is called its .. ...
a. business model b. ad hoc measure c. profit d. moneyworthiness
8. Something you "did not take into account" is something you didn't ..
a. think about b. pay for c. employ d. use temporarily
9. People who put money into a company are its -
a. owners b. backers c. debtors d. directors
10. One way for a company to find what its customers think is by ..
a. sales pitches b. vox pops c. market research d. sales investigation
11. If you make sure that a bet will not cost too much, you ...
a. cut it b. make it safe c. hedge it d. mortgage it
12. If you have not lost much, but not won much, you are said to ...
a. bounce back b. roll over c. start again d. break even
13. In a "bear market" the value of shares goes ...
a. up b. down c. up and down d. unchanged
14. Another word for "promise" is .... .
a. nag b. prayer c. pledge d. swearwords
15. Something that you will lose if you don't repay a debt is called -
a. a morgage b. collateral c. spawn d. hostage
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