Oxford Business English Dictionary for Learners of English

.team 'player noun [c] a person who is good at working as a member of a team: Some of his colleagues have accused him of not being a team player.

teamster /'ti:mst9(r)/ noun [c] [AmE) a person whose job is driving a truck

teamwork /'ti:mw3:k;/\mF-w3:rk/ noun [u] the activity of working well together as a team: Trust is essential for successful teamwork.

technology; technological; technical: tech companies о the tech sector

'tech-,heavy (also 'tech-,laden) adjective (informal) (also technology-,heavy)

(Stock Exchange) (about a stock market) including mainly technology companies: the tech-heavy Nasdaq index

techie (also spelled techy) /'teki/ noun [c] (plural techies) (informal)

a person who knows a lot about or is very interested in technology, especially computing: the company's group of bright young techies о techie jargon

'tech-,laden = tech-heavy

tech MARK™ /'tekma:k; AmE -ma:rk/ noun [sing.]

(Stock Exchange) a group of technology companies that have their own section on the London Stock Exchange: The FTSE TechMARK closed down 0.7%.

technical /'tekmkl/ adjective, noun

[24] adjective

certain to get worse and come to an end: The industry is in terminal decline.

[only before noun] at the end of sth: the terminal bonus on a policy

'terminal .market noun [c]

(Finance) a place where commodities, futures, etc. are bought and sold that is in a trading centre such as London or New York rather than in the country where the goods are produced

-» commodity exchange

Commerce) {AmE) a central place, usually near an important town or city, where goods, especially agricultural goods, are brought from many different areas to be bought and sold

the conditions that people offer, demand or accept when they make an agreement, an arrangement or a contract: The Board has now agreed the terms of the deal, о Under the terms of the agreement; their funding of the project will continue for some time, о The terms and conditions of employment are changing.

О to accept/agree (on)Znegotiate terms ♦ to give sb/ offer/set terms ♦ attractive/better/favourable terms

(Commerce) conditions that you agree to when you buy, sell, or pay for sth; a price or cost: to buy sth on easy terms (= paying for it over a long period) о attractive credit terms offered by car companies о Our terms are 30 days (= payment must be made in 30 days).

О attractive/easy/favourable terms ♦ cash/payment/ trade terms

a way of saying sth or of expressing yourself: 111 try to explain in simple terms.

О n broad/general/simple/strong terms

-» term

ГРТ7П be on good, friendly, bad, etc. 'terms(with sb) to have a good, friendly, etc. relationship with sb: I'm on first-name terms with my boss (= we call each other by our first names), in terms of sth; in .. terms used to show what aspect of a subject you are talking about or how you are thinking about it: Success is not just measured in financial terms, on your own terms: on sb's 'terms according to the conditions that you or sb else decides: III only take the job on my own terms. idiom at equal

.terms of referencenoun [pi ] the limits that are set on what an official committee or report has been asked to do: The matter, they decided, lay outside the commission's terms of reference.

.terms of 'tradenoun [pi.](Economics) the average price of a country's imports compared with the average price of its exports. If export prices rise faster than import prices, terms of trade are said to improve