SMALL BUSINESS DICTIONARY
The Yahoo Small Business Dictionary defines, explains, and cross-references more than 1,800 key small business words, phrases, acronyms, and concepts, covering topics including small business finance, management, sales, startup, exit strategy, and growth. To use the dictionary, type a word in the search box or click a letter to browse the listings alphabetically.
Small Business Dictionary terms starting with L
- LDs
- LP
- Land contract
- Lapsed option
- Launder
- Lead bank
- Leakage
- Lease acquisition cost
- Leasehold improvement
- Lease rate
- Leaseback
- Legal entity
- Legal monopoly
- Lend
- Lender liability lawsuits
- Lessee
- Letter of credit (LOC)
- Leveraged buyout (LBO)
- Leveraged lease
- Liability insurance
- Licensing
- Life cycle
- Life insurance in force
- Lifetime reverse mortgage
- Limitation on sale-and-leaseback
- Limited company
- Limited partner
- Limited payment policy
- Limited warranty
- Liquid
- Liquidated damages
- Liquidation
- Liquidation value
- Listing
- Living trust
- Loan
- Loan commitment
- Location-specific advantages
- Long-term assets
- Long-term debt/capitalization
- Long-term debt ratio
- Long-term financing
- Long-term goals
- Loophole
- Loss Carry-Back (Carry-Forward)
- Loss-of-income insurance
- Lump sum
- LOC
- Lady Macbeth Strategy
- Landlord
- Late charge
- Lead
- Leading and lagging
- Lease
- Leasehold
- Lease-purchase agreement
- Lease term
- Legal bankruptcy
- Legal investments
- Legal risk
- Lender
- Lending agreement
- Lessor
- Level term insurance
- Leveraged company
- Liability
- License agreement
- Lien
- Life insurance
- Life insurance policy
- Limitation on merger, consolidation, or sale
- Limitation on subsidiary borrowing
- Limited liability
- Limited partnership
- Limited recourse
- Line of credit
- Liquid asset
- Liquidating dividend
- Liquidation by assignment
- Liquidator
- Living benefits
- Living will
- Loan amortization schedule
- Local taxes
- Long-term
- Long-term debt
- Long-term debt-to-equity ratio
- Long-term financial plan
- Long-term gain
- Long-term loss
- Loss
- Loss-control activities
- Loss payee
- Lump-sum distribution
Glossary provided by Campbell R. Harvey, Professor of Finance at Duke University.
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