business English
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Headwinds have always blown around in business English, but the phrase economic headwinds serves a special purpose: a majestic waving of the hand, an abandon to the fates, an inkling of force majeure.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2024
Now his eldest son, Mikio, is learning business English in preparation for trips across the Pacific to explain the finer points of sake appreciation to a largely uninitiated clientele.
From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2017
Even so, he ruled, it is permissible only "in business English and Army English, if there is any excuse for the existence of these bastard twins."
From Time Magazine Archive
The B5000 can take problems either worked out in algebraic terms or stated in standard business English, in a few seconds translate them into computer language and go to work to solve them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although our boatmen had a smattering of pidjin, or business, English, we were unable to get a very clear idea of Chinese astronomy.
From Across Asia on a Bicycle by Allen, Thomas Gaskell
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