The person on film sets, TV, etc., who is the assistant to the electrician.

A sum agreed to be paid by a company that wins a contract if the work is not carried out.

Occurred (UK) on 27th October 1986, when major technology changes took place on the London Stock Exchange chiefly to replace manual systems with electronic processes.

The biological identification of human features, such as eyes, voices and hands, increasingly used to identify individuals, e.g., in laptop computers, entry systems and passports.

Money earned in private cash transactions, which is untraceable, and therefore untaxable.

A company which makes a hostile takeover bid for another company that does not want to be bought.

A person who talks at great length without saying anything useful. Originally a Scottish 16thC expression adopted into American slang from the song Maggie Lauder during the US War of Independence.

Research method in which people are asked to try a number of similar products which are not identified by brand name, to decide which product is the best.

A trial, with two groups of people, to test the effect of a new product, especially in medicine. One group is given the real product while the other group is given a placebo or ‘sugar pill’, which does not contain any medication.

In computing, software that needs so much computer memory that it takes a long time to load and therefore does not function properly.