Trade & Finance

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a receptacle in a shop that holds goods offered for sale at a cheap or discounted price.
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bargain bin
A profitable product or scheme.
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earner
Those Japanese radios were a nice little earner: we sold all of them by lunchtime.
a quantity or consignment of goods produced at one time
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batch
a batch of bread, cement, drugs
If someone has... on something that is being sold or offered, they have the right to decide whether or not to buy it or take it before it is offered to anyone else.
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first refusal
Group employees have first refusal on the tickets
the act of trading with a country with which trade is not officially allowed
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sanctions-busting
A printed document showing how much money has been paid into and taken out of a bank or building society account is called a...
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statement
a type of insurance in which you pay a regular amount of money over a particular period of time, or until you die, after which the insurance company pays an amount of money: 🇬🇧
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endowment
I was advised to take out an endowment
a small charge (=a price for a service, a good, or piece of land etc) that does not cover the real cost of something
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token charge
A... is a purchase that turns out to be worth far less than believed, and may even end up costing the buyer more than the initial purchase price
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lemon
To ... prices, rates, taxes, or quantities means to increase them suddenly or by a large amount.
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tax/ toll/ wage/ price hike
It has now been forced to hike its rates by 5.25 per cent.
If a business ... a profit, it earns more money than it spends. 🇺🇸
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turn a profit
After two years, the company began to turn a profit.
a refund of customs or excise duty paid on goods that are being exported or used in the production of manufactured exports
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drawback
In a shop, the ... on an article for sale is a small piece of card or paper which is attached to the article and which has the price written on it. If something has a... of a particular amount, that is the amount that you must pay in order to buy it.
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price tag
I can't say it justifies the price tag of £150.
logo of Nike company
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Swoosh
If you... a debt or money that you have promised to someone, you pay money that you owe or that you promised to pay.
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redeem
The amount required to redeem the mortgage was £358,587
A ... is an offer to pay a particular amount of money for something that is being sold.
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bid
Hanson made an agreed takeover bid of £351 million
... is money, especially a particular coin or banknote, which is officially part of a country's currency at a particular time.
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legal tender

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