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Chart

Meaning in business english, with examples

/tʃɑːrt/nounCore term

In business english, chart means: A picture that shows numbers or information in a visual way, such as a bar chart, a pie chart or a line chart.

In Turkish: grafik, çizelge, diyagram

How it is used

Used constantly in slides and reports: 'As you can see from this chart…', 'The chart shows…'. Bar charts compare amounts, line charts show change over time and pie charts show the parts of a whole.

Example sentences

  1. This chart shows our monthly sales over the last two years.

  2. Could you turn these figures into a bar chart for the slides?

Common collocations

  • bar chart
  • pie chart
  • line chart
  • the chart shows
  • org chart
  • trendThe general direction in which something is changing or developing over time, such as sales, prices or customer behaviour.
  • figuresNumbers that show amounts, results or statistics, especially official numbers about sales, costs or performance.
  • slideOne page of a presentation that is shown on a screen, usually with a title, short text, charts or images.
  • level offTo stop rising or falling and stay at about the same level; used when describing figures on a graph.

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