OGDEN's BASIC ENGLISH
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 in both the trade and the economics lists , freeing space for new words :
General Business (16 of 100)
asset , average , bill , broker , cost , guarantee , investment , liability , loan ,
partner , purchase , retail , sale , strike , supply , wholesale .
Specialty Trade : (50 - 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 - 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 .
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