Lists terms in such areas as marketing, insurance, management, retailing, and banking

A comprehensive and easy-to-use dictionary with more than 10,000 listings for the abbreviations, acronyms, and initials that are routinely used in the stock and commodity markets. Compiled by America's foremost business and technological lexicographer, this book is the indispensable reference book for Wall Street professionals and individual investors alike.

Specifically written to assist in the quick retrieval of commercial, industrial, manufacturing, communicative, automotive, and agricultural research, this reference conveniently assembles the most recent print and electronic research tools, compact discs, and online databases for swift collection and organization of information in the business, marketing, and financial communities.

Provides definitions of a wide variety of acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations and similar contractions, translating them into their full names or meanings. Terms from subject areas such as associations, education, the Internet, medicine and others are included.

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