| Vocabulary | Description |
|---|
| ATM | ATM stands for Automated Teller Machine. It's a computer that makes it convenient to manage your money. All ATMs allow you to withdraw money, and some ATM allow you to make deposits. |
| auction | a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder. |
| balance | |
| bank | |
| bargain | an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost |
| bill | |
| borrow | |
| budget | an estimate of expected income and expense for a given period in the future |
| buy | |
| bucks | American informal money |
| cash | |
| cent | |
| change | |
| check | a written order, usually on a standard printed form, directing a bank to pay money |
| coin | |
| coupon | a voucher entitling the holder to a discount for a particular product. |
| credit | The ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future, an entry recording a sum received, listed on the right-hand side or column of an account. |
| credit card | |
| debt | something, typically money, that is owed or due |
| deposit | a sum of money placed or kept in a bank account, usually to gain interest. |
| dime | |
| dollar | |
| dough | informal money |
| donate | |
| earn | |
| e-cash | e-money, money that exists in electronic form |
| Euro | |
| expense | |
| expensive | |
| face | one side of a coin |
| face value | the value of a coin that is shown on the front of it |
| fund | |
| gold | |
| hard cash | money in the form of coins or bills, rather than checks or credit cards |
| income | |
| interest | |
| lend | |
| loan | |
| loss | |
| market | |
| money | |
| nickel | |
| new money | money that has been recently gained |
| note | a piece of paper money |
| pay | |
| payment | |
| paper money | money in the form of pieces of paper, not coins |
| penny | |
| poor | |
| profit | a financial gain, especially the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something. |
| purse | |
| quarter | 25 cents |
| rate | |
| rich | |
| sale | |
| save | |
| savings | the money one has saved, especially through a bank or official scheme. |
| sell | |
| seller | |
| small change | |
| sold | |
| spend | |
| silver | |
| tails | the side of a coin that does not have a picture of a person on it |
| tax | |
| teller | a person employed to deal with customers' transactions in a bank. |
| value | |
| wallet | |
| Vocabulary | Description |
|---|
| afford | |
| bailout | an act of giving financial assistance to a failing business or economy to save it from collapse. |
| banknote | bill |
| bankrupt | a person or an organization declared in law unable to pay outstanding debts |
| bankruptcy | |
| bonds | In finance, a bond is an instrument of indebtedness of the bond issuer to the holders. It is a debt security, under which the issuer owes the holders a debt and, depending on the terms of the bond, is obliged to pay them interest (the coupon) and/or to repay the principal at a later date, termed the maturity date. |
| bought | |
| business | |
| capital | any economic resource measured in terms of money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or to provide their services to the sector of the economy upon which their operation is based, i.e. retail, corporate, investment banking, etc. |
| currency | |
| deficit | a government policy of financing large public expenditures by borrowing money rather than by raising taxes |
| dividend | |
| down payment | |
| earnings | money obtained in return for labor or services |
| economy | the wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services |
| equity | the value of the shares issued by a company. |
| finance | |
| invest | |
| investment | |
| lucre | monetary reward or gain, money |
| money order | an official document that you buy in a post office or bank as a safe way of sending money to someone |
| stocks | A stock is a type of security that signifies ownership in a corporation and represents a claim on part of the corporation's assets and earnings. |
| treasury | the funds or revenue of a government, corporation, or institution. |
| wealth | |
| withdraw | |
| yield | In finance, the term yield describes the amount in cash (in percentage terms) that returns to the owners of a security, in the form of interest or dividends received from the security |
