Finance Glossary
Finance Glossary
This is a glossary about my future career. It contains terms and lexical field of finance with their definitions, parts of speech, examples, translations to French, pictures, etc.
- administration
- noun
- The tasks and management of any office, business, or organization to control the operation of a plan or organization.
- Example: The inhabitants of the island voted to remain under French administration.
- fr: administration
- budget
- noun
- An estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time.
- Example: The film has a million-dollar budget.
- fr: budget
- cryptocurrency
- noun
- A digital currency in which transactions are verified and records maintained by a decentralized system using cryptography, rather than by a centralized authority.
- Example: Cryptocurrencies have no physical presence and are not backed by a central authority.
- fr: crypto-monnaie
- Credit score
- noun
- A number assigned to a person that indicates to lenders their capacity to repay a loan.
- Example: A good credit score can help you qualify for financing, such as personal loans.
- fr: cote de crédit
- investment
- noun
- The action or process of saving money for profit or material result.
- Example: You can invest your money in cryptocurrency, stocks, NFT, bank products, etc.
- fr: investissement
- invoice
- noun
- A list of things provided or work done together with their cost, for payment at a later time.
- Example: Invoices must be submitted by the 24th of every month.
- fr: facture
- real estate
- noun
- Property consisting of land or buildings.
- Example: 90% of millionaires got their wealth by investing in real estate.
- fr: immobilier
- inflation
- noun
- A general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.
- Example: There has been a lot of discussion about inflation of grades in higher education recently.
- fr: inflation
- debt
- noun
- Something, especially money, that is owed to someone else, or the state of owing something.
- Example: He managed to pay off his debts in two years.
- fr: endetté
- analyst
- noun
- Someone whose job is to study or examine something in detail, in order to discover or understand more about it and often to make predictions.
- Example: Some business analysts have warned of reduced profit margins.
- fr: analyst
- tax
- noun
- Money paid to the government that is based on your income or the cost of goods or services you have bought.
- Example: They're increasing the tax on cigarettes.
- fr: impôt
- stock market
- noun
- A supply of something for use or sale.the activity of buying and selling shares in particular companies, and the people and organizations involved in this.
- Example: It's not a good time to invest in the stock market.
- fr: marché boursier
- accounting
- noun
- The skill or activity of keeping records of the money a person or organization earns and spends.
- Example: The firm was accused of dubious accounting practices.
- fr: comptabilité
- wallet
- noun
- A small folding case for carrying paper money, credit cards and other flat objects.
- Example: The lady put her wallet in her purse.
- fr: porte-monnaie
- lending
- noun
- The activity of lending money to people and organizations which they pay back with interest.
- Example: I lent our ladder to the neighbors. The bank wouldn't lend us the money. Many banks won't lend to people with bad credit.
- fr: prêt
- cheque
- noun
- A printed form, used instead of money, to make payments from your bank account.
- Example: I wrote him a cheque for £50.
- fr: chèque
- money
- noun
- Coins or notes (= special pieces of paper) that are used to buy things.
- Example: I wanted to buy it but it cost too much money.
- fr: argent
- currency
- noun
- The money that is used in a particular country.
- Example: Take some foreign currency to cover incidentals like the taxi fare to your hotel.
- fr: monnaie
- bank
- noun
- An organization where people and businesses can invest or borrow money, change it to foreign money, etc., or a building where these services are offered.
- Example: I need to go to the bank at lunchtime.
- fr: banque
- safe
- noun
- A strong box or cupboard with special locks where valuable things, especially money or jewels.
- Example: Thieves broke into the safe and stole everything in it.
- fr: coffre-fort
- office
- noun
- A room or part of a building in which people work, especially sitting at tables with computers, phones, etc., usually as a part of a business or other organization.
- Example: I didn't leave the office until eight o'clock last night.
- fr: bureau
- chart
- noun
- A drawing that shows information in a simple way, often using lines and curves to show amounts.
- Example: There is a chart on the classroom wall showing the relative heights of all the children.
- fr: graphique
