finances (n. pl) money available經(jīng)費(fèi)

　　[例] the poor state of the company’s finances

　　[同義詞] resources, funds, wealth

　　financial (adj.) referring to finance財(cái)政的

　　[例] financial position

　　[同義詞] monetary, pecuniary

　　financially (adv.) to do with finance財(cái)政上

　　[例] The company is financially dependent on one shareholder.

　　financing (n.) providing money for融資

　　[例] The company’s financing action in real estate implies its new focus in investment.

　　Fine n.) a sum of money required to be paid as a penalty for an offense 罰金

　　[例] A system of fines should be introduced.

　　[同義詞] penalty

　　finished goods (n. pl) product sold as completed制成品

　　[例] Products sold as completed are finished goods.

　　firm (n.) business or partnership商號(hào)

　　fire (v inf) send away from employment, sack解雇

　　[例] Our employment record is good in the community as we hardly ever fire anyone.

　　first aid emergency treatment administered to an injured or sick person before professional medical care is available急救

　　[例] Effective first aid system is very important to a workplace.

　　firm (adj) (of price) steady or rising steadily 堅(jiān)挺

　　[例] Gold shares remained firm today.

　　fiscal (adj.) referring to tax財(cái)政的

　　[例] What about this year’s fiscal tax?

　　fix (v.) agree/set something決定

　　[例] The price was fixed at $25.

　　fixtures (n. pl) equipment in a factory that cannot be moved固定設(shè)備,工夾具

　　[例] Machines are fixtures of a factory.

　　flagship (n.) the main or most successful product in a range 旗艦，同類產(chǎn)品中佼佼者

　　[例] Their cars are flagships among all the products in this city.

　　flat (adj.) commercially inactive; sluggish 蕭條的

　　[例] The American market was flat in 1995.

　　flawed (adj.) having defects有瑕疵的

　　[例] I am writing to apologize for our flawed samples.

　　flexitime (n.) (also flextime) flexible system of working in which workers can choose what time to start and finish (see also core time)彈性上班制

　　[例] With the flexitime system you can choose your start and finish time.

　　flier (n.) a promotional leaflet 廣告?zhèn)鲉?/P>

　　[例] Fliers of this new type of computer are handed out in all the streets.

　　flip chart (培訓(xùn)常用的)活動(dòng)掛圖

　　float (v.) put a company’s shares for sale on the Stock Exchange發(fā)行(股票、債券等)

　　[例] When the company was floated on the stock market, many of them opted to become shareholders.

　　floatation (n.) starting or expanding a company by offering shares for sale以公開發(fā)行股票的方式開辦公司

　　[例] a new company flotation

　　flop (n.) failure失敗

　　[例] Their corporation came to a flop in the end.

　　flow shop (n.) production workshop where machines and operators handle a continuous material flow, as in mass production流水線車間

　　follower (n.) company which follows others into a market市場追隨者

　　[例] Many companies became followers seeing KFC’s success.

　　fluctuate (v.) rise and fall rapidly波動(dòng)

　　[例] Workers certainly don’t want their pay to fluctuate wildly.

　　[同義詞] vacillate,waver, vary

　　fluctuation (n.) sudden movement波動(dòng)

　　[例] It is difficult to estimate the price fluctuation of the market.

　　FOB (free on board) 離岸價(jià)

　　follow-up (n.) an activity done to add to or continue something done earlier后繼(產(chǎn)品)

　　[例] The software was a successful follow-up to the original product.

　　force majeure (n) an unexpected and unavoidable event that causes or allows a contract to be changed or cancelled if it has a forcer majeure clause 不可抗力

　　[例] Due to force majeure , this deal turned out to be a great failure.

　　[同義詞]Act of God

　　forecast1. (n.) estimate of what will happen in the future預(yù)測

　　[例] The inflation of the currency and booming commodity price in the market forecast the bubble economy.

　　2. (v.) predict what will happen預(yù)測

　　foreclose (v) to deprive (a mortgagor) of the right to redeem mortgaged property, as when payments have not been made 取消(抵押品的)贖回權(quán)

　　[例] That bank foreclosed on the mortgage.

　　forge (v) to make an illegal copy of something偽造

　　[例] The signature on the cheque was forged and was rejected by the bank.

　　forman (n) an experienced worker who supervises and directs other workers 領(lǐng)班，工頭

　　[例] He was promoted to factory foreman due to his excellent performance.

　　format (n.) layout 格式

　　[例] write in an accessible format

　　forwarder (n) one that forwards, especially an agent that facilitates and assures the passage of received goods to their destination 貨運(yùn)代理商

　　[例] The goods were handed over to the forwarder by the airline company.

　　four P’s PRODUCT, PRICE, PLACE, PROMOTION 4P 理論(麥卡錫提出)

　　franchise]1. (n.) licence to sell under a brand name特許經(jīng)營

　　[例] The small company has got the franchise to sell products of IBM.

　　2. (v.) give a licence to someone特許經(jīng)營