STAAR Grade 8 Social Studies: Economics, Science, Technology, and Society

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  1. capital
    assets available for use in the production of further assets
  2. commerce
    transactions supplying goods and services
  3. competition
    business relation in which two parties vie to gain customers
  4. currency
    the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used
  5. economic
    relating to the production and consumption of goods
  6. embargo
    a government order imposing a trade barrier
  7. entrepreneur
    someone who organizes a business venture
  8. free enterprise
    an economy relying on market forces to allocate resources
  9. industrialization
    the development of commercial enterprise
  10. industry
    the people engaged in a kind of commercial enterprise
  11. innovation
    a creation resulting from study and experimentation
  12. manufacture
    the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
  13. plantation
    an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale
  14. profit
    excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time
  15. regulation
    the act of controlling or directing according to rule
  16. revenue
    the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
  17. taxation
    imposition of charges against a citizen's person or property
  18. telegraph
    apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire
  19. trade
    the commercial exchange of goods and services
  20. transcontinental
    spanning one of the large landmasses of the earth
  21. transportation
    the act of moving something from one location to another
  22. urbanization
    the social process whereby cities grow
Created on Wed Jun 23 15:44:52 EDT 2021 (updated Thu Jun 24 08:39:51 EDT 2021)

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