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GED Economics vocab
Vocab, Missouri GED On-line, Social Studies: Economics
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| consumer | one who buys a product or service from someone else |
| credit | money available to borrow with the promise of repayment |
| debit card | a card that subtracts money directly from a checking account |
| demand | what comsumers or businesses will buy of a particular good or service at a given price |
| export | to sell goods produced in one's own country to those in another country |
| gross domestic product | the value of a nation's production of goods and services during a particular year |
| import | to bring one's own country goods from another country |
| inflation | a period during which prices of many items rise sharply and continually |
| interest rate | the amount of money a loan will cost, usually given in a percentage of the borrowed money that will be paid back every year |
| monopoly | a business that is the only one providing a certain good or service |
| producer | one who makes a product for others to buy |
| stock market | a place where investors buy and sell shares of stock in major corporations |
| strike | a work stoppage intended to force an employer to respond to workers' demands |
| supply | what producers will provide of a particular good or service for sale at a given price |
| tariff | a tax on imported goods |
| trust | relating to economics, a combination of companies that are under one organization's control |