Vocabulario de Finanzas Personales en Inglés: Dinero, Deudas y Economía

Vocabulario de finanzas y economía en inglés

Términos generales

Marry up. Trophy wives. Commodity. Shattered dreams. Dropout.

To query: To ask or investigate on something.

Rearing: care.

Doomed to: To be sentenced.

At a stroke: At once, with a single action.

Juggling: Multitasking, dealing.

Collide: Crash, confronted.

High-flying: Successful.

Littered with: Filled with.

Sourest: Miserable.

Shoulder: To support.

To gather: To collect.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

To be tight-fisted.

It cost an arm and a leg.

To make ends meet: enough money to pay your needs.

To be in the red.

It's daylight robbery: have to pay far too much money.

To tighten one's belts: spend less money than you did before because you have less money.

Living beyond their means: Spending more money than you can afford.

Vocabulario financiero

• Aid (ayuda)
• Collateral (garantía)
• Peer: (the same social status as you).
• Budget (presupuesto)
• Grant (beca)
• Loan: (préstamo)
• Fee: (money that you pay for professional advice or services)
• Fare (bus, plane, taxi, etc.)
• Savings
• Donation
• Fine: (punishment)
• Instalment (10 al mes)
• Deposit
• Will: (testamento)
• Lump sum (D1)
• A consumer society
• The standard of living
• Income (ingreso)
• Inflation
• Cost of living
• Balance (saldo de la cuenta)
• Interest rates (interés del banco)
• To be in debt: To owe money.
• Mortgage (hipoteca)
• Shares: "Acciones"
• Stock market: "Mercado bursátil"
• Currency (€)
• Exchange rates
• Went bankrupt (unable to pay one's debt).
• The recession: A period when conditions for business are bad.

Sinónimos: ricos y pobres

RICH: Wealthy / Affluent / Well-off / Loaded / Prosperous.

POOR: Hard up / Penniless / Broke.

Grand / K (thousand pounds)

Quid (pounds)

Bucks (dollars)

Verbos y expresiones

Undermine: To stop someone or something from making progress or developing.

Tackle: To make an organized and determined attempt to deal with a problem, often a social problem.

Accumulation: The process by which something increases in amount over time.

Unprecedented: The greatest size, amount, degree, etc. that has ever been known.

Amassed: Collected (a lot of something) over a period of time.

Pledge: To promise a certain amount of money for a particular purpose.

Curb: To control or limit something that is harmful.

Inevitably: Used for saying that something is certain to happen.

Hinder: To make something or someone become gradually less effective, beneficial or successful.

Tax havens: Places where people go to live, or where they keep their money, so that they don't have to pay higher taxes in their home country.

Yield: To produce something useful such as information or evidence.

Revenues: Income from business activities or taxes.

At the expense of: If one exists or happens in this way, the second thing suffers or is not done well because of the first.

Pointing a finger at: Accuse someone or suggest that they are guilty of something bad.

To make something four times over: End something so that it no longer exists.

Amassed: To get a large amount of something, especially money or information, by collecting it over a long period.

Objetos y lugares relacionados con el dinero

• Bill / notes: "La cuenta"
• A safe: "Caja fuerte"
• A slot machine: "Máquina tragamonedas"
• A piggy bank: "Hucha"
• A till: "Caja registradora"
• Wages: Salary.
• Cash and carry: "Venta al por mayor"