business English

American  

noun

1. English in business usage, especially the styles and forms of business correspondence.

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Example Sentences

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

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

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

But in taking this point of view, we should not minimize the importance of written business English.

From Business English A Practice Book by Buhlig, Rose