business English

noun

1

: English as used in business

specifically : the study and practice of composition with emphasis on correctness, propriety, spelling, punctuation, and the forms of business correspondence

2

: English as taught in non-English-speaking countries in courses that emphasize its commercial rather than its cultural importance and that are normally designed to produce conversational fluency within a limited vocabulary

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