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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

HB

English answer:

Hospitality Budget

Added to glossary by Fan Gao
Mar 20, 2007 05:24
17 yrs ago
English term

HB

English Marketing Other Sales
I've search Google and scoured Acronym Finder and I can't find the two words that would fit this acronym. It appears in the following line:

"All of our sales staff have a certain HB, which they manage themselves and can be used to cover expenses related to developing new clients."

I don't know what the sales staff are selling as this line is part of a short test passage for students and is followed by a multiple choice question, which is not about the HB.

Thanks,
Mark
Responses
4 +5 Hospitality budget
3 Typo for MB
2 Hold/buy

Discussion

Fan Gao (asker) Mar 20, 2007:
The original text is in English. I've mailed the client but it'll be a while before they come back to me.
Ioanna Karamanou Mar 20, 2007:
of = is, typo, sorry
Ioanna Karamanou Mar 20, 2007:
I'm not sure I understood correctly - what language of the original text?
David Moore (X) Mar 20, 2007:
ch could fit this context.
David Moore (X) Mar 20, 2007:
This has been through quite a few hands, and I just wonder: could it be a typo or an OCR error, where the "H" should be an "M"? I've just finished a scanned doc. where this happened several times. If that were the case, it could be "marketing budget", whi
Fan Gao (asker) Mar 20, 2007:
Thanks. I've found "holding budget", but I've never heard of that in this context and all the links appear to be about the economy and nothing to do with sales.
BrigitteHilgner Mar 20, 2007:
Given the context, I assume that "B" stands for budget. Sorry, no idea what "H" might stand for.
Fan Gao (asker) Mar 20, 2007:
Yes, it's a back-translation from Chinese but the original translator left HB as it was and didn't translate it into Chinese so it doesn't really help. It has to be some kind of expense account, but I just can't think what the initials could refer to.
Ioanna Karamanou Mar 20, 2007:
It sounds like it is referring to some sort of expense account or petty cash fund, but I have no idea why it is referred to as HB. Is this a backtranslation and, if so, from what language? Maybe that could shed some light on the mysterious acronym.

Responses

+5
3 hrs
Selected

Hospitality budget

Basically, an expense account which they use to entertain clients
Peer comment(s):
agree juvera
2 hrs
Mòran taing
agree Lubosh Hanuska : Can also be "house budget" but the conecept/meaning would be the same.
2 hrs
Mòran taing
agree Will Matter : Looks good to me.
9 hrs
agree Els Spin : Sounds good to me too.
13 hrs
agree Alfa Trans (X)
20 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Hospitality Budget it is, thanks very much:)"
2 hrs

Typo for MB

Having surfed a bit, I'm surposed how many times the expressions "sales staff" and marketing budget" occur cheek by jowl, and I think it is a distinct possibility - even though it's little more than a guess...
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3 hrs

Hold/buy

my 2 cents

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Note added at 5 ore (2007-03-20 10:30:15 GMT)
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