Financial and Space Vocabulary: Key Terms & Phrases

Financial Terms

• Save up: Ahorrar
• Borrow: Pedir prestado
• Credit card: Tarjeta de crédito
• Instalments: Plazos
• On direct debit: Cargo en cuenta
• Inherit: Heredar
• Heir: Heredero
• Treat yourself: Darte un capricho
• Invest wisely: Invertir sabiamente
• Donate to charity: Donar
• Hand sth over to someone: Entregar algo a alguien
• A £50 note: Billete de 50 libras
• Being successful and having lots of money: Prosperity
• When you spend more money than you have in your bank account: Overdraft
• When a business's costs and their profits are the same: Break even
• Legally declared as unable to pay one's debts: Bankrupt
• Wealthy: Affluent
• Items of value owned by a person or business: Assets
• To waste money: Squander
• Total amount spent: Expenditure
• Not worth what you paid: Rip-off
• Profitable: Lucrative
• Booming economy: Economía floreciente
• Loan: Préstamo
• On the proceeds: Con sus ingresos
• Everything I spend: My outgoings
• Find good prices: Get the best deals
• Don't have a lot of money: Am on a limited budget
• Spending more than I had in my account: Going into overdraft
• Manage: Make ends meet
• All our spending over the course of a month: Our expenditure
• Wasting on unnecessary purchases: Squandering
• Expensive: Overpriced

Financial Actions

• Waste no time in spending your wage
• Spend money on unnecessary things
• Pay off your debts
• Make a fortune on a deal
• Pay for the course in instalments.
• Lose business due to the recession
• Make a donation to charity
• Pay someone back what you borrowed
• Pay top dollar for rare items

Financial Idioms

1. In debt, owing money: In the red
2. Reduce costs and live more economically: Tighten our belts
3. Be really expensive: Lived beyond its means
4. Be able to manage to pay for the things you need: Make ends meet
5. Come from a wealthy and privileged background: Born with a silver spoon in their mouth
6. Spend money freely and without worry: Splashes out on
7. Have barely enough money to live on: Lived hand to mouth
8. Start poor but later become extremely wealthy: Rags to riches
9. Spend more than you can afford: Cost the earth/ break the bank

Space Exploration Terms

• Space rocket
• Space race: Carrera entre países
• Space probe: Investigación espacial
• Space craft/ship
• Space shuttle: Lanzadera
• Space travel
• Space tourism
• Outer space
• Space aliens
• Space station
• Withstand: Soportar
• Unmanned: Sin gente

Space Related Terms

• Storage space
• Parking space
• Confined space
• Stare into space
• Breathing space
• Waste space
• Bar space
• Personal space

Other Terms

• Birds of prey
• Food chain
• Climate change
• Fossil fuels
• Mountain range
• Ocean currents
• World-renowned: Mundialmente conocido