Let's continue with the next group of Business Vocabulary, people who need to deal with cash. If you want to recall the business vocabulary in the last entry, click Business Vocabulary: The Cogs -- The Law Group
Short Change - From cheating someone by giving them less change than they should after a purchase. Refers to a person who treats others unfairly or deceitfully. Alternately, someone who borrows money but fails to pay back the lender in full.
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Short Change - From cheating someone by giving them less change than they should after a purchase. Refers to a person who treats others unfairly or deceitfully. Alternately, someone who borrows money but fails to pay back the lender in full.
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Penny Pincher - Someone who spend little money, who is exceedingly careful with expenses and money. (such as Ebenezer Scrooge)
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Tightwad - A cheapskate, or someone who is stingy. "Wad" means a number of especially flat and/or small objects pressed tightly together, say cash notes.
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Bean Counter - A financial person who is concerned with quantity of products, such as bookkeeping or accounting, often neglecting other matters.
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Loan Shark - Someone who lends money with excessive rates of interest.
Interest costs an arm and a leg.
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Robber Baron - Someone who becomes wealthy by unethical means, such as questionable stock-market operations and labor.
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C.F.O. - Chief Financial Officer. The corporate executive having financial authority to make appropriations and authorize expenditures for a firm
Resources:
http://lockyep.blogspot.com/2010/05/business-vocabulary-cogs-law-group.html
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shortchange
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/penny_pincher
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/wad
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bean_counter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_cruncher
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/robber_baron
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