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Thoughts on Creating a
General Business Wordlist
Assuming that a general Business category is to be created, obvious candidate words are
the sixteen that exist (freeing space for new words) in both the trade and the economics lists :
General Business (16 of 100)
asset , average , bill , broker , cost , guarantee , investment , liability , loan ,
partner , purchase , retail , sale , strike , supply , wholesale.
Specialty Trade : (50 minus 16)
acceptance, address, agency, allowance, assets,
assistant, average,
bale, bankrupt, barrel, bill, broker,
certificate, charge, claim, client, code, complaint, consignment, cost,
court, customs, debit, deck, defect, delivery, export, gross, guarantee,
hire, hold, import, investment, liability,
license, load, loan,
packing, pair, partner,
purchase, reference, retail,
sale, sample, show, sight, strike,
supply, wholesale.
Specialty Economics : (50 minus 16)
accident, arbitration, asset,
average, bill, broker,
budget, circulation, combine, consumer, conversion, correlation,
cost,
deflation, demand, deposit, discount,
efficiency, effort, employer, experiment, factor, fatigue,
guarantee, habit, index, inflation, investment,
liability, loan,
margin, monopoly, partner, pension, plan, population,
purchase, rent, retail,
sale, saving, security, service, share, speculation,
statistics, stimulus, strike, supply,
wholesale.
The following words overlap categories, which is a sign of their utility :
age , absorption , accident , address , arrangement , ash , barrel ,
bubble , bud , case , charge , clay , column , cross , demand , deposit , difficulty , effort ,
employer , exact , experiment , explanation , explosion , fan , fatigue , fresh , generation ,
ground , guard , habit , hill , interpenetration , jaw , joint , juice , kidney , license ,
liver , load , lung , mean , mud , origin , pair , proof , reference (3) , screen , shell ,
show , sight , spark , stable , stimulus , strain , stream , surface , sum , trap , tube ,
twin , valley , wild .
These similar words are found in different subcategories :
agent - agency ; arbitrary - arbitration ; combination - combine .
Key : Red means repeated words. Gray is the repeated word in its listing.
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