American English: Finance Collocations
When talking about the business practice, it
seems inevitable to hear people passing comments on stock market reports,
important flows of finance, corporate crisis, accounting discrepancies, ethical
practices, financial irregularities and the like. Well then, the purpose of this post is to
focus in the terms that are related to finance and how verbs, nouns, and
prepositions collocate (appear together). Let’s have a look at the list below:
make a loss / run at a loss / take a loss
default on a loan /obtain a loan /take out
a loan
(= to borrow money/pay it back)
run up a debt /pay off a debt /be in debt
incur expenses /cover expenses /all
expenses paid(=if you incur costs, you have to pay them)
Now, how can we use
them in context so we can get the meaning across?
We need to rethink ways so as not to make a loss. (If you make a loss, you
lose money)
A default on a loan occurs when the borrower does
not make required payments on in some other way does not comply with the terms
of a loan.[2]
She stayed two weeks at the hotel and ran up a bill which she couldn't pay. (If you run up a debt,
you do things which cause you to owe a large amount of money)
I didn’t pay
off my debt overnight. It took many years, and I made plenty of mistakes.
But in the end, I met my goal. (If you pay off your debt, you finish paying the
money you owe)
CLP has borrowed $3 million to cover expenses related to a planned
outage…
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