Business Acronyms and Abbreviations Presentation

By: Alex Case

Level: Intermediate

Theme: Profession, work or study

Study Area: Vocabulary

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Business acronyms and abbreviations presentation

Business acronyms presentation

Split the list of words below into things which can be written as acronyms, e.g. ASEAN, and write those acronyms as a list below.

Association of Southeast Asian Nations annual general meeting as soon as possible business to business corporate social responsibility chief executive officer chief finance officer chief operating officer curriculum vitae estimated time of arrival Financial Times financial year 2020 for your information frequently asked questions Great British pounds Greenwich Mean Time gross domestic product headquarters human responses intellectual property the internet of things initial public offering mergers and acquisitions master of business administration Middle East and North Africa per annum personal assistant profit and loss public limited company public relations research and development real estate investment trust return on investment small and medium-sized enterprises search engine optimisation to be announced to be arranged to be confirmed to be determined trade mark United States dollars unique selling points value added tax vice president any other business

Business abbreviations presentation

Join the halves of the words below to make the longer versions of the abbreviations on the left.

admin erative

ad imately

advert isement

approx istration

co-op nstration

Corp oration

(political/ product) demo orporated

fig rmation

Inc ure 1

info vertisement

kilo ellaneous

max garding

memo gramme

misc imum

re munications

sales rep orary staff

telecom randum

temp resentative

trade/ labor union

Check as a class.

Test each other on the expressions above:

Say a short version for your partner to say the long version of
Say a long version for your partner to say the short version of

Make as many of these phrases shorter as you can. Note that some cannot be made shorter and so should be kept as they are.

administration
advertisement
after sales service
approximately
British pounds
business to business
commercial
cooperative
Corporation
deflation
(political/ product) demonstration
figure 1
financial technology
foreign exchange
fourth quarter
Greenwich Mean Time
headquarters
Incorporated
inflation
information
kilogramme
kilometre
limited (company/ liability company)
maximum
memorandum
mergers and acquisitions
miscellaneous
new recruit
part time
regarding
research and development
sales representative
social media
specifications
telecommunications
telephone conference
temporary staff
trade union/ labor union
trademark
value added tax