contemp 2

• Counterfeit: to copy something illegally to make it look like something else
• Crash:

  • A time when many investments lose their value quickly due to investors losing confidence in the market and selling
  • An occasion when a computer suddenly stops working or fails to work properly
• Crisis:

  • A period of great difficulty, danger, or uncertainty, especially in politics or economics
  • A time when a personal problem or situation has reached its worst point
• Culture:

  • The ideas, beliefs, and customs shared and accepted by people in a society
  • The attitudes or beliefs shared by a particular group of people or in a particular organization
• Customs: the government department responsible for collecting tax on goods and preventing illegal imports or exports
• Deceit: when someone tries to gain an advantage by tricking someone with false statements
• Deceive: to make someone believe something untrue to achieve personal gain
• Decline:

  • When an industry or country becomes less profitable, productive, or wealthy
  • When sales, output, production etc decrease
• Defect: a fault or lack in a product that makes it imperfect
• Demand:

  • Spending on goods and services by companies and people in an economy
  • The total amount of goods or services bought in a particular period
  • The total amount of goods or services people or companies would buy if available
• Demerge: when a company or unit becomes a separate entity from a group
• Deregulate: when a government allows companies to operate more freely to increase competition
• Devious: using dishonest tricks to deceive people to achieve personal goals
• Differentiation: when a company shows how its products are different from competitors in advertising
• Disclosure:

  • The duty of informing customers, shareholders etc about facts that influence their decisions
  • Giving information that is usually kept secret
  • Making known a fact after keeping it secret
• Dismissal: when someone is removed from their job by their employer
• Disposal:

  • The act of getting rid of something
  • An asset that is sold and the act of selling it
• Dispose:

  • Getting rid of something
  • When a company sells a particular asset, activity etc
• Distribution channel (or distribution chain): the way a product is made available and sold, involving various organizations
• Counterfeit: to copy something illegally to make it look like something else
• Diversify: when a company or economy increases the range of goods or services it produces
• Crash:

  • A time when many investments lose their value very quickly, usually due to investors losing confidence in the market and selling
  • An occasion when a computer or computer software suddenly and unexpectedly stops working or fails to work properly
• Diversity: starting to invest in different types of investments in addition to existing ones
• Crisis:

  • A period or moment of great difficulty, danger, or uncertainty, especially in politics or economics
  • A time when a personal problem or situation has reached its worst point
• Culture:

  • The ideas, beliefs, and customs shared and accepted by people in a society
  • The attitudes or beliefs shared by a particular group of people or in a particular organization
• Customs: the government department responsible for collecting tax on goods and preventing illegal imports or exports
• Deceit: when someone tries to gain an advantage by tricking someone, such as making a false statement
• Deceive: to make someone believe something untrue to achieve personal gain
• Decline:

  • When an industry or country becomes less profitable, productive, or wealthy
  • When sales, output, production, etc., decrease
• Defect: a fault or lack in a product that makes it imperfect
• Demand:

  • Spending on goods and services by companies and people in a particular economy
  • The total amount of goods or services bought in a specific period
  • The total amount of goods or services people or companies would buy if available
• Demerge: when a company or unit becomes a separate entity from a group
• Deregulate: when a government allows companies to operate more freely to increase competition
• Devious: using dishonest tricks and deception to achieve personal goals
• Differentiation: when a company shows how its products differ from each other and from competitors, often in advertising
• Disclosure:

  • The duty of someone in a professional position to inform customers, shareholders, etc., about facts influencing their decisions
  • The act of giving information about someone that is usually kept secret
  • A fact that is made known after being kept secret
• Dismissal: when someone is removed from their job by their employer
• Disposal:

  • The act of getting rid of something
  • An asset that is sold and the act of selling it
• Dispose:

  • To get rid of something
  • If a company sells a particular asset, activity, etc.
• Distribution channel (or distribution chain): the way a product is made available and sold, involving various organizations