Business Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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Basement Betty n. One-of-a-kind, handmade items are huge. It’s not Basement Betty crafts; it’s handcrafted jewelry, blown glass, hand-painted lamps —things of that calibre. [English Business Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 7, 2006)

Basement Betty n. It’s just not possible for the ma and pa shops to compete with the grocery stores selling cut flowers and the Basement Bettys undercutting the market, selling out of their homes. [English Business Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 7, 2006)

Basement Bob n. The proliferation of PCs and low end accounting/tax software—not to mention “Basement Betty/Bob”—during the past 13 years has made it increasingly difficult to compete (profitably) for monthly bookkeeping assignments, year ends, and tax returns. [English Business Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 7, 2006)

basket size n. On average, a customer with a basket will buy two items more on any given visit than a customer left to fumble with two or three purchases, other shopping bags and a handbag or purse. This is no small matter as store managers attempt to maximise “basket size,” or “average transaction value” as it is known in the colourful language of financial analysts. [ Language English Register Jargon Subject Business] [full cite] (Dec. 16, 2005)

bazaar-bunk n. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC), as part of its Vision 2000 scheme, has launched beautified multi-utility “bazaar-bunks.” The Fortune 500 company has drawn up plans to commission new retail outlets all over the country and has undertaken a project to upgrade the existing retail outlets to international standards. [English India Business] [full cite] (Sep. 19, 2005)

Big Pharma n. Big Pharma, as it is known, offered everything: the hopes and dreams we have of it; its vast, partly realized potential for good; and its pitch-dark underside, sustained by huge wealth, pathological secrecy, corruption and greed. [English Business] [full cite] (Sep. 3, 2005)

black box n. You can add a fourth box to the amber, blue and green boxes the World Trade Organization uses to try to keep straight the “aggregate measures of support” member countries provide to agriculture. The fourth is a “black box,” the term U.S. trade officials have adopted to describe the loopholes some countries are trying to carve out in the ongoing debate over increased market access, the issue that has ground the Doha Development Round to a halt. [English Business Government Politics Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 25, 2006)

Black Monday n. Many have taken to calling the benchmark “Black Monday”—piggybacking on “Black Friday,” the longtime nickname of the day after Thanksgiving, historically the day when sales pushed money-losing stores into the black. [ Language English Subject Business] [full cite] (Nov. 28, 2005)

blank-check company n. One niche in which the company already leads are officially called a Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation (SPAC). In everyday parlance, they’re known as blank-check companies. What are those? Back in ancient times—notably the dot-com era of the 20th century—entrepreneurs came up with a dream and sold it to the eager public through an initial public offering of stock, sometimes before they had profits or even revenue. That’s old school. New school in this, the 21st century, is having an IPO for a SPAC. They have no profits and no revenue. In fact, they don’t even know what they’re going to spend their money on—hence the name “blank check.” [English Business Money & Finance] [full cite] (Nov. 8, 2006)

blue bird n. Blue Bird—A sale that is made as a result of a customer or prospect contacting a company to purchase its product. Very little effort is required to win the account. [English Business Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2007)

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