Vocabulary

• courtesy of: Provided or permitted by (someone or something).
• on the back of: As a result of or following something.
• across the board: Broad in scope or content
• equity markets: A place where stocks and shares are bought and sold.
• the bottom line: The most important thing; the essential point.
• on the move: Traveling or going from place to place.
• incredibly: To a great degree; very; amazingly
• boost: To increase something; to make something better
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• revenue: Money that is made by or paid to a business
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• momentum: Speed or force that is gained when something moves
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• robust: Having physical vigor or energetic good health
• perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
• decision: Choice made after thinking; final judgment
• chase: Act of going after someone to catch them
• value: Importance you attach to something
• advance: Forward movement by an army
• asset: Thing that has value to you
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
• couple: To join something to something else
• rest: Time when one relaxes, sleeps, or is inactive
• investment: Something purchased hoping its value will increase
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• wealth: Amount of money or possessions you own, e.g. large
• trend: Current style or fashion
• activity: An action or task, e.g. sports, washing clothes
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• bottom: The part of your body you sit on
• quarter: 25 cents
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• courtesy: Polite and respectful behavior
• technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
• sector: Part that a place is divided into
• division: How many times a number is contained in another
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• rally: Public meeting to support or oppose something
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• founder: Person establishing an organization, school etc.
• chip: To break a small piece off something such as a cup
• blockbuster: Large, expensive, popular, successful (movie, cd)
• percentage: Part of a whole divided into hundredths
• equity: Condition of people being treated the same
• cap: Covering for the end or top of something
• baseline: Imaginary standard by which things are compared
• mid: At (or near) the middle point
• automation: Use of machines to do tasks once done by people
• officer: Person of high position in an organization
• pickup: Small truck that has an open back with low sides
• boon: Something very helpful which makes life easier