King Saud University

Huraimla Community
College

HCC Dictionary
of
Management and Business

By

Students of Business Administration

Supervised and Revised
By

Dr. Khalid M Bahaa El-Din

Assistant Professor of English Language

Second Edition
1430 H- 2009

*By
Students Contributed to the 2nd Edition
Abdallah bin Abdel Rahman Thari
Abdallah bin Said Abu Owa
Abdel Aziz bin Abdallah Al-Gerbou'a
Adham bin Awad bin Turky Al-Turky
Adham bin Mahdy bin Saeed
Faisal bin Salem Al-Shahri
Ibrahim bin Turky bin Abdel Aziz Al-Turky
Maged bin Abdallah Al-Thenian
Maged bin Sulaiman Al-Sheridy
Mohamed bin Abdallah Al-Sewailam
Mohamed bin Abdel Rahman Al-Sha'alan
Mohamed bin Rakan Al-Sebai
Mohamed bin Saleh Saeb
Motlaq bin Hamoud bin Fahd
Naif bin Farhan Al-Shebani
Naser bin Abdallah Al-Janoubi
Nawaf Hamed Ateya Al-Harthy
Saleh bin Sant Al-Metari
Wael bin Ibrahim Al-Qrian
Yazed bin Mohamed bin Naser Al-Terki
Zafer bin Saad bin Safer Kashehan
* Names are alphabetically arranged

Supervised and Revised by

Dr./ Khalid M. Bahaa El-Din
Assistant Professor of English Language
Huraimla Community College
King Saud University

*By
1

Students Contributed to the 1st Edition

Barak Shadad Batal
Husam bin Hamad bin Abdallah
Hammad bin Abdel Rahman Al-Awran
Zyad bin Mohamed bin Abdullah Al-Daba'an
Saad bin Khuzam Al-Seba'e
Saeed bin Ali Al-Qahtani
Tareq bin Ahmed Al-Zahrani
Talal Ali Abdullah Al-Zahrani
Abdel Salam bin Abdullah Al-Sewaelam
Abdel Aziz bin Saud bin Abdel Aziz
Abdel Aziz bin Abdullah bin Saeed Al-Sehaimy
Abdel Mohsen Mohamed Al-Baqmy
Emad bin Abdullah Al-Sewailam
Fahd Hussein Said
Faisal Fahd Mesfer Al-Dosary
Maged Al-Rashidi
Mohamed Sulaiman Abdullah Al-Netaify
Murshed Mohamed Murshed
Naser bin Eneizan bin Mohamed
Nasr Abdel Aziz Mohamed Al-Gary
Naif bin Faleh Al-Deigani
Nawaf bin Badr Al=Deigani
Nawaf Hamed Ateya Al-Harthy
Waleed bin Abdullah bin Ibrahim
Yazeed Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Nasrallah
* Names are alphabetically arranged

Supervised and Revised by

Dr./ Khalid M. Bahaa El-Din
Assistant Professor of English Language
Huraimla Community College
King Saud University

To
Dr. Abdel Rahman Al-Janoubi
Dean of Huraimla
Community College
Who does his best to make his
students have a better
understanding of English
Language

Introduction
This dictionary is the fruit of collective efforts and
cooperation among the students of the fourth level of the
qualifying stage at the Business Administration Department in
Huraimla Community College. The students have exerted
3

vigorous efforts to get their work into being. The goal of the
dictionary was not just the compiling of terms and providing
translation for them. The main goal was to make a dictionary of
benefit to English language students in general and those of the
business administration in particular.
Every student was examined in the terms he complied and
translated to make sure that he has full understanding of the
content
The fourth-level students of Huraimla Community College
are credited for being the first to initiate this work which would
not be the last as business administration students next year and
the years to come would- Allah Willing- work on updating this
work with the aim of having a bigger professional dictionary.
This work might be difficult at the beginning but it turnedThanks Allah- into a tangible achievement. It was a great pleasure
for me to ask my students in the very terms and translation they
made and make sure that they have comprehended them well.
Dr./ Khalid M. Bahaa El-Din
Assistant Professor of English Language

Huraimla 1430 H/ 2009

Absorption Costing

"
" .

Accelerator

Acceptance credit

Acceptance of Bills of

Exchange

Accepting houses

Accident insurance
"Account ," stock Exchange

25 :

Account day

Account Sales

Accountability "in

"business

Accounts

Acid test ratio

.
=

Activity sampling

Actuary

Ad Valorem duty

Ad valorem Stamp Duty

Added value or value added

Adjudication order

Administration

Administrative law

Advertise

...

Advertising agency

Advertising standards

Authority

Advisory, Conciliation and

Arbitration Service ACAS

1975 :
1
.
2
.
3

.

After sales service

..

Against all risks

Agent

Aggregate money Demand

AMD
Amortization

Analyse or analyze

Annual report

Anti trust laws

.
,

Appearance

Appliance

: ,
,

applicant

Application form

, ,.

Apply

 : , ,
...
,

Appoint

.
,

Appraise

.
,

Apprentice

Apprenticeship

Arbitration or mediation

Assemble

Assembly line or production

line
Assess

,
,

Asset stripping

Attain

, ...

10

Attributes


. ...
,

Automation

Autonomy

.


.

11

Average outgoing quality

Back order

Background

Backhander

Backlog of orders

Backward integration

, ,

Balance

12

Balance of payments

+

+ .

Balance of trade

Balance Sheet

Balanced line

Ballot

Bank Certificate

,

.

Bank Rate

Banker's Bank

13

Bargain

Basic human needs

-1 -2 , -3 ,.

Basic pay

Batch

Bean counter

Bear

.
.

Bearer Securities

Beneficial owner

Benefits

Best operation level

14

Bid

Billboard

Bill-Leak

Blind test

Blitz

Blue Chip

Blue-collar worker

Board of directors

Bonus

Book Keeping

15

Boss

Bottleneck

Bottom up management

Bought Ledger

,
.

Boycott

Bradford wool exchange

Brand

Brand awareness

Brand image

Brand loyalty

Brand management

16

Brand mark

Brand preference

Brand recognition

Brand switchers

Branding

Breakdown

Break-even analysis

Break-even point

Breaking bulk

Bribery

17

Bridging Loan

Brochure

Broker

Brokerage

Brown goods

Budget

Buffer stock

Built in obsolescence

Bulk Cargoes

Bull

18

Bundling

.
,

Bureaucracy

Business

Business cycle

Business hours

Business leaders

Business like

Business plan

....

Business trip

19

Buyer or purchaser

20

cabinet

Candidate

Capacity

Capacity cushion

Capacity utilization rate

Capital

Capital account

21

Capital assets

Capital expenditure

Capital gains tax

Capital gains tax

Capital goods

Capital goods

Capital intensive

Capital market

22

Capital reserves

Capital transfer tax

Captain's protest

Career

Cargo insurance

Cargo liners

Carriage forward

.


.

23

Carriage paid

Carrier

.
,

Carry on

Carry out

Carrying cost

Cartel

Cartel

Cash

Cash

Cash book

.
-

Cash discount

Cash flow

24

Cash flows

Cash limits

Casting vote

Casual work

Catalogue

Central bank

Central bank balances

Central government

25

Centralization

.
:

Certificate of insurance

Certificate of origin

Certificate of trading

Chain of command

Chain store

Chain store or retail chain.

Chairman

26

Chairman\chairperson\chair

Chambers of commerce

Charter party

Chartering agents

Check trading

Cheque

Chief executive officer

Civil law

Civil service

27

Claim

Classify

Client

- -

Clock in and out

Closed shop

Coin

Cold calling

Collaborate

Collateral security

28

Colleague

Collective bargaining

Commerce

Commercial

Commercial bill

Commercial traveler

Commission

Committee

Commodity

Common carrier

29

Common parts

Common pricing

Communications mix

Company

Company law

Company's risk

Comparative panty strategy

.
,

Compensation

remuneration

.
.

30

Compete

Competition

Competitive

Competitive advantage

Competitive strategy

Competitiveness

Competitor

Computer Technology

Conditions of sale

Consignor

31

Consumer goods

Consumer Protection

Consumption

Coordinate

.
company

Corporation

Cost accounting

- ...

Cost centre

Cost leadership
Cost per thousand

32

Cost plus

Costs

.

.

Counter marketing
Counter-cyclical advertising

Coupon

Critical path

Critical path scheduling

Current revenue prancing

Curriculum vitae

Customer

Customer Service

33


.
,

Customize

D
34

Daily list

Daily settlement

Data

Database

Dawn raid.

Daybooks
Dead time

Deal

Dealer

Debentures

35

Debt
Decentralization

Decide

Decision model

Decision tree

.
,

Deduct

,

, ,

Defect
Deferred shares
Deflation

Delegate

Deliver
Demand

Demand and supply, Laws

36

of

Demerge

Demographics

Demography

...

Demote

Demurrage

Department

Department
Department store
Department store

Deposit account

Deposit-taking institutions

...

Depreciation
Desk research

37

Deter

Devaluation

Differential cost analysis

Differentiation

Direct controls

Direct mail

Direct services
Director

Discount

Discount store

Discriminate

38

Diseconomies of scale

Dismiss

Dispatch

disposable income
Dispose of

Dispute
Distribution
Distribution channel

Distributor
Diversification

Divest

Dividend mandate

Division

Division of labour
Double time

39

Down grade

Down market

Down time

Due date

Dumping

Durability

Durable goods

Duties

40

Earn

Earnings

Easements

Ecology

Economic rent

Economics
Economies of scale
Economy of control

Economy of types

Efficiency

Elastic

Elasticity

41

Electronic founds transfer

Electronic office

Eligible

Eligible liabilities
Employ

Employee

Employment

Employment agency

Employment contract

....

Employment legislation

1972

Endowment assurance

42

Engage
Enterprise

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

Environmentalism

Equal opportunities

Equal Opportunities

Commission

Equal pay

Equilibrium

Equip

Equity

43

European Community Law

European Economic

Community
European Free Trade
Associations EFTA
European Monetary System
European Parliament
Evaluate

Executive

Executive director

Experience

Experiment

Export

Export Intelligence Service

.
.

Export licence

] [

.

44

Export, risk of
Extensive growth

Facilities

45

Facility

Facsimile
Factor

Factors of production

.

.

Fad

Fail

Fair average quality

Family law

Family protection policy

.

.

Feasibility study
Features

46


.
,

Feedback

Field research

FIFO first in, first out

Final dividend

Finance

Finance

Financial accounting

Fine rate

Finished goods

Fire

47

Fire drill

Fire hazard

.

..
.

Fire insurance
Firm
First aid

Fixed costs

Fixed interest

Fixed position layout

Fixings

Flat yield

Flexibility

Flextime

48

Floating currencies

Flop

Focus group

Foreman

.
.

Forward integration
Founders
Franked income

Free trade

Freelance

Freight forwarding agent

Freight insurance

Freight market
Friendly societies

49

Friendly takeover

50

Gather

General average

General ledger

Generic products
Giffen goods

Gilt-edged market

Give notice

Global product

Goal
Gold reserves
Golden handcuffs

51

Goods

Goodwill

Go-slow

Government aid for

exporters
Government aid for
industry

Government bonds

Government borrowing
Government broker

Government departments
Government expenditure
Government income

Government monetary
policy
Government monopolies

52

Government, functions of
Graduate

Grain futures market

Green paper

Grievance

Gross

Gross domestic product

Gross profit
Gross profit percentage
Group life insurance

Growth
Growth stage

Guarantee

Guarantee, companies

limited by

53

Guarantor

Habit

" "

Hammering

Handle

Hansard

Harass
Hardware
Hattom Garden

Hawkers

Health and Safty at work

act 1975

1975

54

Hedging

Hierarchy

High street banks

Highly organized market

Hire
Hire retailing

.
,

Hive off
Holding Companies

Holiday

Home trade

Home Office

55

Horizontal integration

Hot money

House of Commons

House of Lords

24
.

Household protection

insurance

Hull insurance

Human relations

:

.

Human resources

56

Hunch
Hyperbole

Hypermarket

Import documents

Import licences

Import merchant

57

Import trade

Imprest

Incentive schemes

Income and expenditure

account

Income tax

Income velocity of

circulation of money

Incomes policy

.
,

Indemnity

58

Indent

" " .

Index linked stock

Index numbers

Index of Retail Prices

Indicator system

Indirect costs

""over heads

.

Indirect production

Indirect taxation

59

Industrial life offices

Industrial relations

Industrial relations

Industrial Tribunals

Industrialist

Industry

Inelastic

Inelasticity of demand

Inflation

60

Inflation accounting

Informal organization

Information Technology
Infrastructure

......

Initial deposit

Initiative

.... .

Injury

,
...... .

Inland bill

61

Inland Revenue

Innovate

..... .

Innovators

Insolvency

Inspect

....... .

Institutional investor

Insurable interest

Insurable risk
Insurance

........ .
...... .

Insurance brokers

62

Insurance claim

Insurance Market

Insurance policy

Insurance premium

Insurance, parties

Integrate

Integration

Interbank market

63

Interest Finance

Interim dividend

International company

Intra vires

Investment trusts

Investment trusts

Invisible trade

-
.

Invoice

64

Job

65

Job analysis

Job application

Job costing

Job description

:
.

Job enrichment

Job evaluation

Job lot

Job rotation

Job satisfaction

Job security

Job sharing

66

Jobber

Jobless

Joint venture

Journal

Judicial function

Junk mail

67

Kangaroo closure

.
,






,

Keen
Keen Competition
Keen demand
Keen price
Keep books of records
Keep the mintues
Keep the order
Keeper
Kerb dealing

.


,

68

Key currency
Key personnel
Key-industry
Key-position
Key-product
Key-staff
Kill a project



,
, ,

.

Kill inflation
Kind
Knockdown price
Knocking copy
Knockout competition
Knockout price
Kondratieff curve

Labour

Labour intensive

69

Labour turnover

LabourGB or laborUS

Labourlaborunion

,
"

Labourer

Lading, bill of
Laggards

Land

Large-scale production

Last In , First out

"

Launch

Law , classification of

70

Law of demand and supply

Law of diminishing returns

Lay off

"

Lead time

" .
"

Lease-or boy decision

Leasing

Leave

,
:

Ledger

Legal aid

Legal rights

71

Legal tender

Legislative function
Legislative process

Legislature

Lender of last resort

Letter of credit

Letter of indemnity

Letter of renunciation
Liabilities current

Liability
Liability reserve

72

Liable

" " :
,,,..

Licensed dealer

Licensing

Life assurance

Lifestyle

Limited company

Limited liability

.
,

Limited partner
Line - stretching

73

Line and staff organisation

Line authority

Line management

Line management

Line manager

Line or chain of command

"

Line-fillling

Liner cargo
Liquidation

Liquidity

Liquidity ratio

8
"

74


%92

, ,

Listing agreement
Litigation

Lloyds brokers

Lloyds list

Loan

Loan capital

Machinery

Macroeconomics

75

Mail order

.....

Mail order
Maintenance
Maintenance marketing

Making up day

Manage

Management

Management by objectives

Manager

Managing director

76

Manning agreement

Manpower services

commission

...

Manual worker

Manufacture

Manufacturing

engineering or production
engineering
Manufacturing industry

Manufacturing process

Manufacturing sector

Margin

Marginal costing

Marginal revenue

77

Marine insurance

Mark

"
"

Market

Market demand

Market challenger

Market development

Market forces

Market price

Market research

Marketing

78

Marketing boards

Mark-up

.

.

Mass production
Measure

Media

Media plan

Mediums Medium gilts

Medium-term financial

strategy

Meetings
Merchandising

Merchant

79

Merchant banks
Merge

.
.

Mergers

Merit raise

.
..

Merit rating

Message

Methods of payment

Microeconomics

.
.

Microprocessors

Microsystems centres

80

Middle price

Middleman

Minimum lending rate MLR

Minimum reserve ratio

1981

%10

Minority shareholders

Minutes

Mixed economy

Mobile shop

...
.

Monetarism

Monetary base

81

Monetary base control

Monetary demand

Monetary policy

Monetary target

Money

.
..

Money income

Money market

Money spinner

Monopoly

Monthly statement

Motion

82

Naked Debentures

National debt

National expenditure
National income

National Insurance
National launch

National output
National savings
Nationalisation
Natural monopolies

83

Natural resources

Natural wastage

...

Need

Negligence

Negotiable instrument
Negotiate

Net capital formation

Net national product

Net profit

Net worth
Network

84

New entrants

Niche

Niche marketing or

concentrated segmentation
No par value
Non- durable goods

...
-

Non-business marketing

:

:
...

Non-executive director

Number cruncher

85

86

O
,

Objective

Objective
Obsolete

Occupational pensions

board

.
1957

Occupiers liability Act 1957

Odd pricing

7.95
7 8.

Official receiver

Official strike

Off-the peg

Oil tankers

87

Oligopoly

Open accounts
Open cheque
Open cover
Open market
Open outcry

Opening price stock

exchange
Operating expenses

Operating statement

Operating targets

Operational research or

management

88

Operations

Operations management

Opportunity cost

Opportunity cost

.
:

Optimal

Optimum firm

Optimum population

Options dealing

Order

89

Order cheque

Ordinary shares
Organisation and method O

&M

Organization chart

Organized labour

Original entry books of

Outlet

...

Output

Outsourcing or contracting

90

Over demand

Over -The -Counter OTC

market

Overheads

Overproduction

Overseas sales base

Overseas seminars
Overtime

Overwork

Own account transport

Own label or own brand

Ownership of organizations

91

92

Packaging

Part time jobs

Parts

Pass the buck

Patent

Pay

Pay back period

Pay differentials

... .

Pay rise

93

Pay scales

Payment period

Payments
Payroll

Penetration strategy

Pension

Perception

Performance

Performance review

Personal

.


.

94

Personal selling

Personnel

Personnel department

Personnel management

Picket

Picket line

Piece work

Place

.
,

Plan

Plant
Point of sale
Position
President

)
(.

Price

95

Price and incomes Policy

Price cut

Price effect

Price elasticity

Price leadership

Primage

Primary Production

Primary Research

96

Prime Cost
Private sector

Privatization

Prize

Probate Price

Produce

Producer

Producer Goods

Product

Product Data Store

BOTB

.
3000 .

Product differentiation

97

Product life cycle

Production Unit

Productivity

Profitability

.
,

Profiteer

Pro-forma invoice

Progressing Progress

chasing
Project

.
:

Projection

Promotion

98

Promotional tools

Prototype

Provincial stock exchanges.

Proxy

Proxy card

Prune

Public Accounts Committee

Public Bills

Public Enterprises

99

Purchasing

Pure Competition

Put option

Put Through

100

Quadriennal plan
Qualification
Qualifications required
Qualified
Qualified employee
Qualified vote
Qualitative guidance

Quality

Quality as per samples

Quality control
Quality label
Quality of leadership
Quantity
Quantity discount

Quarter up

Questionnaire
Quick ratio

Quiet market
Quit
Quorum

101

Quota
Quota licenses

Quota system
Quotation

Quotation of prices
Quoted company

102

Raid

Raider

Random sample

Rate of return on capital

103

Rate of turnover

Rates

Rationalization

Raw material

Real accounts

Real incomeswages

Real Value

Receipts and payments

account

Receiving order

Recession

Recognize

Recruit

Redemption date

104

Redundancy Payments

.
,

Redundant

Re-export

Reinstate

Reinsurance

Reintermediation

Reject

Re-launch

Reliability

.
,

Relocate

105

Remarketing

Remuneration

Reserves, capital

Resign

Resources

Resources

Results
Retailer
Retailing
Retire
Risk

Sack

Safety precautions

Safety stock

106

Salary
Sale of Goods Act, 1893

1393

Sales analysis

Sales figures

Sales force
Sales forecast
Sales presentation
Sales promotion

Sales prospects
Sales representative sales
person
Sales resistance

Sales response function

Sales revenue

Sales target

Sales territory
Sales volume

Sample

Sampling

Saturation of a market

107

Savings

Schedule

Scientific management

Screen
Seasonable employment
Seasonable unemployment

Secondary data

Secondary sector of the

economy
Security

Security

Segment market segment

Self actualization
Self employed

Selling concept

108

Seniority
Service Industries

Serviceability
Services

Set
Set up

Settle

Set-up time

Severance pay
Shake - out

, ,
.

Shareholders
Shelf space
Shift
Shipping
Shop steward
Shopping goods

109

Shortage
Shortlist
Shorts

Sleeping partner See

Partners
Small Firms Service
Social Needs
Social Services

Software

Span of Control

Spread
State Pension
Statute Law

Statutory Meeting

Sterling

Sterling Area

Stock

110

Stock control
Stockjobber

Street Market

Supermarkets

Supply

Systems Analysis
Systems Approach

Target pricing

111

Tendering or competitive

bidding
Tertiary sector of the
economy

..

Testimonial
Threshold effect

Throughput

Time and motion study

Time and-a-half

%150 .

Total costs of production

.


.


.

Total quality Control TQC

Total quality management

112

DTI

TQM
Tourism
Trade

Trade and industry

department of

DTI

:

.

Trade associations

.
,

Trade bills
Trade credit

Trade description act

.
1968

113

Trade descriptions act 1968

Trade discount

 .

. VAT

Trade fairs overseas

Trade gap

.

" "

.

Trade mark

Trade marketing

Trade off

Trade promotions guide

Trade terms-term of trade-

.

1974
.

114

terms of payment
Trade union and labour
relations act 1974

Trade unions

.
.

Traded options
Trades union congress

TUC

.

Trading account

Trading bloc k

EEC
EFTA
.

Trading capital
Trading certificate
Trading stamps

Trading standards office

consumer protection

115

department

Training

Training for adults

Training services agency
Tramp

Transaction

" "
.
.
.

Transfer payments

116

 .
.

Transport

Transshipment
Treasury
Treasury bills
Treaty of rome

1957

. 1972

Trial balance

Tribunals

:
.

.

117

Trusts



...
.

Turn
Turnover of business

U
118

Ultra vires

Uncompetitive

Undersell or undercut
Undertake

Underwriters

Underwriting of share issue

Undifferentiated marketing

Undifferentiated product

Unemployed

Unemployment

Unemployment Insurance

Unfair contract terms

Unique selling proposition

Unique selling proposition

119

Unit cost

United Trust

Unlisted security

Unofficial or wildcat strike

Unsocial hours

Up market

Usage

User friendly

Utilities

..

120

Vacancy

Vacation

Valuation of assets
Valuation of stock account

Value added
Value analysis

Value-based management
Values

. , ,

Variable costs

121

Variable proportions, law of

Velocity of circulation

Vending machine

..

Vertical integration

Vertical integration

Vice president

Victimization

Viewdata

Visible trade

Vocational training

122

Volume

Voluntary liquidation

Vote

Voyage charters

Wage

Waiting line theory

Waiver

Want

Wants

123

Warehouse
Warehousing

Warranty

Wealth

Welfare

Wholesaler

Woolsack
Work study

124

X-Y-Z
-

,

X
Xeno-currency
Xerox
Xmas
Year
Year of count
Year of grace
Year of manufacture
Yearbook
Yearly consumption
Yearly income
Yearly letting
Yearly plan

Yearly premium
Yearly rental
Yearly settlement
Yeas and nays US
Yield curve
Yield interest
Yield on share

125

 x =
Yield profit
Yield-capacity
Zero base
Zero defects
Zero duty
Zero growth
Zero sum game
Zero tariff quota
Zero-rating
Zone pricing
Zone time

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