Vocabulary

Business Vocabulary flashcards

12 decks · 600 cards · built into Willys · free samples below

Written against: The terms of everyday business, finance, marketing and the workplace; American usage; our own word selection. Updated 2026-10-10.

What's in it

Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.

Learn · 6 decks · 400 cards

Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.

Set 1: Meanings The first 100 of the 300 Business Vocabulary words, from revenue and cash flow to buy-in and lead time: pronunciation, a plain definition in the business sense and three example sentences, the most common use first. 10 free · 100 cards in the app Set 1: In Context Fill the blank: 34 of the Set 1 terms, each in a new sentence from working life, from earnings reports and factory floors to meetings and contracts, whose clues point to one term (where a second also fits, the back says so). 10 free · 34 cards in the app Set 2: Meanings The next 100 business words, from guarantee and supply chain to equity, margin and algorithm: pronunciation, a plain definition in the business sense and three example sentences, the most common use first. 10 free · 100 cards in the app Set 2: In Context Fill the blank: 33 of the Set 2 terms, each in a new sentence from working life, from earnings reports and factory floors to meetings and contracts, whose clues point to one term (where a second also fits, the back says so). 10 free · 33 cards in the app Set 3: Meanings 100 more everyday business words, from disclosure and freight to due diligence and buyout: pronunciation, a plain definition in the business sense and three example sentences, the most common use first. 10 free · 100 cards in the app Set 3: In Context Fill the blank: 33 of the Set 3 terms, each in a new sentence from working life, from earnings reports and factory floors to meetings and contracts, whose clues point to one term (where a second also fits, the back says so). 10 free · 33 cards in the app

Drills · 3 decks · 100 cards

Short answers and cloze blanks for the facts you simply have to know cold.

Set 1: Quick Drills Meaning to term: 33 of the Set 1 words, from a fresh one-line definition in the business sense back to the term itself, with one example of it at work. 10 free · 33 cards in the app Set 2: Quick Drills Meaning to term: 34 of the Set 2 words, from a fresh one-line definition in the business sense back to the term itself, with one example of it at work. 10 free · 34 cards in the app Set 3: Quick Drills Meaning to term: 33 of the Set 3 words, from a fresh one-line definition in the business sense back to the term itself, with one example of it at work. 10 free · 33 cards in the app

Practice · 3 decks · 100 questions

Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.

Set 1: Practice Thirty-three sentence-completion questions on the Set 1 words, set in shops, offices and boardrooms: four choices, one blank, and why the tempting wrong answer fails. 6 free · 33 questions in the app Set 2: Practice Thirty-three sentence-completion questions on the Set 2 words, set in shops, offices and boardrooms: four choices, one blank, and why the tempting wrong answer fails. 6 free · 33 questions in the app Set 3: Practice Thirty-four sentence-completion questions on the Set 3 words, set in shops, offices and boardrooms: four choices, one blank, and why the tempting wrong answer fails. 6 free · 34 questions in the app

Study guide

Topics covered

The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.

Strategy & Planning 60
Finance & Accounting 60
Marketing & Sales 60
Operations & Supply 60
People & Management 60
Deals & Negotiation 60
Economics & Markets 60
Law & Compliance 60
Meetings & Communication 60
Technology & Data 60

A study plan

22 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
11 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.
8 new cards a day covers everything in three months, leaving the last weeks for review.

Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.

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Every deck is built into Willys

All 12 Business Vocabulary decks (600 cards), with FSRS spaced repetition, quizzes and mock tests, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.

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About these cards

Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.

Checked against:

Senses, parts of speech and pronunciations checked against Merriam-Webster.com, the American Heritage Dictionary and the Oxford Learner's, Longman and Cambridge learner's dictionaries; all definitions, notes and example sentences are original.
Word selection is our own, by frequency (wordfreq, CC BY-SA 4.0) and editorial judgment; no publisher's business glossary is reproduced.
Senses and parts of speech checked against Merriam-Webster.com, the American Heritage Dictionary, the Oxford Learner's, Longman and Cambridge learner's dictionaries and the SEC's Investor.gov glossary; all definitions, notes and example sentences are original.
Senses, parts of speech and pronunciations checked against Merriam-Webster.com, the American Heritage Dictionary, Dictionary.com and the Oxford Learner's, Longman and Cambridge learner's dictionaries, and runway's cash sense against peer-reviewed small-business research; all definitions, notes and example sentences are original.
Value proposition, legally binding and several Watch out notes also checked against the BCcampus open textbook Principles of Marketing, eCornell, Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute (Wex), the SEC's Investor.gov glossary, IRS Publication 463, the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee and the USPTO (reference only; no text copied).
OpenStax Principles of Accounting, Volume 1, consulted as a reference; no text copied.
Senses and parts of speech checked against Merriam-Webster.com, the American Heritage Dictionary and the Oxford Learner's, Longman and Cambridge learner's dictionaries; all definitions, notes and example sentences are original.
Senses and parts of speech checked against Merriam-Webster.com, the American Heritage Dictionary and the Oxford Learner's, Longman and Cambridge learner's dictionaries; runway's finance sense, which none of these lists, rests on its use in peer-reviewed research (International Small Business Journal, 2022); all definitions, notes and example sentences are original.

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