The designation for a certain sized business in terms of employee number, annual turnover, value of assets for example.

A group providing help to small businesses in the USA, from loan programs, coun seling, deuactional opportunities to contract negotiation.

A loan given to small businesses with fewer restrictions that allow the owner to borrow for the enterprise.

The court where claims less than $1000 are being judged. It is a relatively cheap forum for minor disagreements and controversies.

A process that is used by small businesses where they group together into a large pool to receive a rate that is more accurate.

An automated electronic order in NASDAQ for orders that are fewer than 1000 shares.

A card the same size as a credit card that contains a microprocessor chip, memory and a battery. It stores in formation allowing a person to access different areas and equipment. May

A suspension of zeolites or metals inj liquid that becomes a solid when an electric current is passing through it and returns to a fluid when the current stops.

The trades and investments in stocks that are made by the most sophisticated vendors who have a great understanding of financial markets and often see trends earlier than others do.

A mobile phone with many features of a computer included in its functions.

The extraction of metal from ore using heat in an enlosed furnace. Impurties called slag rise to the surface. The opposite of roasting that involves an oxidation process.

The combination of smoke and fog. It now refers to the photochemical smog trapped at ground level by inversion layers in the atmosphere.

The products that are produced during a combustible event such as a fire.

Any damage that is caused by the smoke that is produced from a fire.

A heavy manufacturing industry, cars, metal industries, that puts pollution into the air that is harmful to the local environment.

A piece of information or a document that bears evidence that is indisputable to back up a claim.

The technique used in statistics that evens out small and short term irregularites in data.

Used in marketing when demand is exceeding production ads and promotional material are withdrawn from the market until production has caught up.

A Scandinavian term for a cold buffet. Now it is where all courses are offered at the same time, both hot and cold. Swedish – sandwich table.

A mixture of exotic ingredients that promise to cure all ills that usually has no medicinal properties at all.