Decode the jargon. Walk in fluent.

Third-Party Logistics — outsourced warehousing, fulfillment, shipping.

Employer contribution that matches employee retirement plan deferrals up to a cap.

Accommodations plan for students with disabilities under Section 504.

Out of stock — the kitchen can't serve it tonight.

Showing two variants to similar users to see which performs better.

Running two variants in parallel and measuring lift with statistical tests.

Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate — the classic instructional design process.

Authority Having Jurisdiction — the local agency enforcing codes.

Average Handle Time — total time per support interaction.

A contract that lets two pieces of software talk to each other.

ASCM's supply chain certifications — CPIM, CSCP, CLTD.

Applicant Tracking System — software recruiters use to screen and manage candidates.

Assets Under Management — total value of client assets a firm manages.

Snapshot of assets, liabilities, and equity at a point in time.

The test you must pass to practice law in a given state.

The routing protocol that holds the public internet together.

Business Intelligence dashboard tool (Tableau, Looker, Power BI).

Contractor's priced proposal to do the work.

Time you spend on client work, charged in 0.1-hour increments.

Building Information Modeling — 3D models linked to project data (Revit, ArchiCAD).

Hierarchy of learning verbs — Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create.

Standardized way to cite a court decision — e.g. Brown v. Board, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).

The consistent personality and tone the brand uses everywhere.

Written project direction — goal, audience, deliverables, constraints.

A formal written argument submitted to a court.

Plot of remaining work vs time in a sprint.

Customer Acquisition Cost / Lifetime Value — SaaS unit economics.

Capital expenditure (long-term assets) vs operating expense (day-to-day).

Cisco's entry-level certification for network engineers.

Chartered Financial Analyst — gold-standard credential in investment management.

Formal process to evaluate and approve changes to scope, schedule, or budget.

Formal contract amendment changing scope, cost, or schedule.

Documenting patient care in the EHR — vitals, meds, assessments, notes.

Automated build, test, and deploy pipeline.

Industry-standard hardening checklist for operating systems and services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professional — senior-level credential.

Systems and routines that keep students learning instead of disrupting.

CMYK = ink/print; RGB = light/screen.

Overhead alert for cardiac/respiratory arrest — all hands respond.

A teammate reads your PR before it merges to catch bugs and align on style.

Grouping users by shared start date or trait, then tracking behavior over time.

Comp = remove a paid item for a guest; void = remove before payment.

Salary range for a role at a given level — min, mid, max.

Hotels you benchmark against in your market (STR report).

2x2 table of true/false positives and negatives — classifier accuracy view.

% of store visitors who buy something.

Number of guests served — the core sales metric.

Standardized codes for medical procedures and services.

The longest dependency chain in a project — slip it and the project slips.

Sequence of dependent tasks that determines project duration.

Customer Relationship Management — software tracking prospects and customers (Salesforce, HubSpot).

Receiving and immediately shipping out without putting goods on a shelf.

Customer Satisfaction Score — usually a 1-5 rating after an interaction.

Click-Through Rate / Conversion Rate — ad and funnel performance metrics.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures — public catalog of known security flaws.

Counting a subset of inventory regularly vs. a full year-end count.

Directed Acyclic Graph — the structure of a pipeline's dependencies.

Central, query-optimized store for analytics (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).

Data Build Tool — open-source framework that does the 'T' in ELT.

Discounted Cash Flow — valuation method that projects cash flows and discounts to present value.

Predicting future sales by SKU/region to drive purchasing and production.

Sworn out-of-court testimony recorded for later use at trial.

Hands out IP addresses automatically when devices join the network.

Adjusting content, process, or product to match student needs.

Pre-trial phase where each side exchanges evidence.

Translates human names like google.com to IP addresses.

A record points to an IP; CNAME points to another name.

Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, Amortization.

Endpoint Detection & Response — agent on laptops/servers that detects threats.

Performance-based teacher certification portfolio — lessons, video, reflection.

Equal Employment Opportunity laws + the federal agency that enforces them.

Electronic Health/Medical Record — the digital chart system.

High-visibility shelving at the end of an aisle — prime real estate.

Periodic anonymous pulse on employee sentiment.

Economic Order Quantity — formula for the order size that minimizes total inventory cost.

Enterprise Resource Planning — system of record across finance, supply chain, HR (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite).

Extract, Transform, Load — moving data from sources into a warehouse.

Crafting input variables that help a model learn signal.

A toggle that turns code paths on/off without redeploying.

A statement saying which traffic is allowed or blocked between zones.

% of issues resolved on the first interaction with no callbacks.

Family and Medical Leave Act — 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave.

Incoterms — define when risk and cost transfer from seller to buyer.

Front-of-House = dining room; Back-of-House = kitchen and prep.

Formative = check learning in progress; summative = measure it at the end.

The stages a prospect moves through from awareness to purchase.

Bar chart showing project tasks across a timeline with dependencies.

Two ways to integrate branches — rebase rewrites history, merge preserves it.

Patient satisfaction survey that ties to Medicare reimbursement.

An offsetting position that reduces exposure to a specific risk.

Fidelity — low = sketchy/early; high = polished/final.

Federal law protecting patient health information.

Human Resource Information System — system of record for employees (Workday, BambooHR, Rippling).

Identity & Access Management — who can do what.

Individualized Education Program — legal plan for a student with disabilities.

Paying or partnering with social creators to reach their audience.

Initial Public Offering — when a private company sells shares on a public exchange.

Hospital accreditation body — sets safety and quality standards.

Inventory strategy where components arrive exactly when needed for production.

Pull-based workflow on a board (To Do / Doing / Done) with WIP limits.

Spacing between letters, across words, and between lines.

Stages of a cyberattack (recon → weaponize → deliver → exploit → install → C2 → action).

Key Performance Indicators — sales per hour, conversion, UPT, AOV, NPS.

Know Your Customer — identity and risk verification regulated banks must run.

Leveraged Buyout — acquiring a company using mostly debt.

Time from placing an order to receiving the goods.

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design — green building rating system.

Written plan for one class: objective, hook, activities, assessment, close.

Learning Management System — hosts and tracks courses (Canvas, Moodle, Cornerstone).

Distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers.

In-store team focused on reducing shrink (theft, fraud, error).

Less-Than-Truckload vs Full Truckload freight.

Medical-surgical unit — general adult inpatient nursing floor.

Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing — the three core building systems trades.

Multi-Factor Auth — something you know + something you have.

An architecture where the app is split into many small, independent services.

French for 'everything in its place' — your station prepped before service.

Order customization (no onions, extra cheese, etc.) entered in the POS.

One repo for all code vs many small repos.

Visual collage that sets direction before real work starts.

Minimum Order Quantity — smallest amount a supplier will produce per order.

Pre-trial request to exclude evidence the jury shouldn't see.

Marketing Qualified Lead / Sales Qualified Lead — pipeline stages.

Max packet size on a link before it gets fragmented.

Minimum Viable Product — smallest version that delivers value and gets feedback.

Anonymous evaluator who shops and rates the experience.

Lets private subnets reach the internet without being directly exposed.

The nursing licensure exam — pass it to practice as an RN or LPN.

Non-Disclosure Agreement — keeps shared info confidential.

Net Promoter Score — would you recommend us? (-100 to +100).

Logs + metrics + traces — knowing what's happening in production.

Formal document with role, salary, start date, benefits, contingencies.

Objectives & Key Results — quarterly goal-setting framework.

Make this NOW — fire it ahead of every other ticket.

Structured first-30/60/90-day experience for new hires.

Open = setup and prep for the day. Close = cash-out, clean, lock up.

Worker safety training — 10-hour for workers, 30-hour for supervisors.

Open-Source Intelligence — info gathered from publicly available sources.

Model memorizes training data and fails to generalize to new data.

Probability of seeing this result if there were no real effect.

Profit & Loss statement — revenue minus costs over a period.

Provider credentials — PA & NP are mid-level; MD & DO are physicians.

Pay application — contractor's monthly request for payment based on % complete.

Professional Engineer license — required to stamp drawings and lead public-impact projects.

Penetration test — authorized hacking to find vulnerabilities.

Fake emails/sites that trick you into giving up credentials.

HR certifications — HRCI's PHR and SHRM's CP/SCP.

Personally Identifiable Information — names, emails, SSNs, etc.

Performance Improvement Plan — formal 30/60/90-day plan for underperformers.

An automated chain of data steps — ingest, transform, train, deploy.

Diagram showing exactly where every product sits on a shelf or fixture.

What an ingredient costs vs. what the dish sells for.

Professional Learning Community — a teacher team that meets to improve instruction.

Project Management Office — central function overseeing portfolio governance.

Project Management Professional — PMI's flagship certification.

Point of Sale system — Toast, Square, Aloha, Micros.

Written analysis after an incident — blameless, focused on systems.

The teacher licensure exam most US states require.

Insurer approval required before a non-emergent procedure can be done.

Confidential communication protected from disclosure (attorney-client, work product).

Free legal work for clients who can't afford it.

Proposed code change submitted for review before merge.

List of small fixes needed before project handoff/closeout.

Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed — clarifies roles per task.

Restructure code without changing what it does, to make it cleaner.

Calls with former managers/peers before extending an offer.

Team retrospective after each sprint — what worked, what to change.

Revenue Per Available Room — hotel industry's core metric.

Request for Information — formal question from contractor to architect/engineer.

Request for Quote (price-focused) vs Request for Proposal (price + approach).

Living log of project risks with probability, impact, owner, mitigation.

Nursing license tiers — RN (4yr+NCLEX), LPN (1yr+NCLEX-PN), CNA (weeks+state test).

Temporary supports that help students reach the goal, then fade away.

Adding work to a project after the scope is set without adjusting time/budget.

Agile framework with sprints, daily standups, sprint reviews, retros.

Software-defined WAN — replaces MPLS by routing branch traffic over the internet.

CompTIA's entry-level security certification.

Social-Emotional Learning — teaching self-awareness, regulation, and relationships.

SEO = organic search optimization; SEM = paid search ads.

Sequential rounds of venture financing for startups.

Industry-standard food safety certification — required by most states for managers.

Inventory loss from theft, damage, error.

Security Information & Event Management — central log collector and alerting platform.

Stock Keeping Unit — unique ID for every product variant.

Cutting underperforming SKUs to reduce complexity and cost.

Cutting underperforming products from assortment.

Documentation format: Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan.

Security Operations Center — the team monitoring threats 24/7.

Independent audit of a SaaS company's security controls.

Reading the room, anticipating needs, recovering from mistakes gracefully.

Proactively finding candidates (LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, referrals) vs. waiting on applications.

The difference between two prices/rates (bid/ask, credit, yield).

A 1-2 week chunk of work the team commits to in agile.

End-of-sprint demo to stakeholders + decision on what to ship.

Structured Query Language — the standard way to ask databases for data.

The chain of function calls leading to an error.

Anyone affected by or invested in the project outcome.

Drawings signed and sealed by a licensed PE or architect.

Daily 15-min team sync — what you did, what you're doing, blockers.

Warehouse design pattern — fact table in the middle, dimension tables around it.

Deadline to file a lawsuit after the wrong happened.

Rules for using a brand — colors, fonts, logo usage, voice, imagery.

Product/material info contractor submits for designer approval before installing.

A range of IP addresses inside a larger network.

A judge decides the case before trial because no material facts are in dispute.

Shortcuts in the codebase that will cost time to fix later.

MTSS instruction levels — universal, targeted small group, intensive 1:1.

Responsible alcohol service certifications — often required to bartend or serve.

Encryption layer that protects data in transit (HTTPS).

A civil wrong causing harm — basis for most personal injury cases.

Full comp picture — salary, bonus, equity, benefits, perks.

Sorting patients by acuity — sickest first.

Table size — a 'two-top' seats 2, a 'four-top' seats 4.

Units Per Transaction / Average Order Value / Average Transaction Value.

BP, HR, RR, SpO2, temp — the core check on every patient.

Virtual LAN — a logical network split inside one physical switch.

The jury selection process — questioning potential jurors.

Virtual Private Cloud — your isolated network inside AWS/Azure/GCP.

Encrypted tunnel that makes a remote device act like it's on the local network.

Web Application Firewall — filters malicious HTTP traffic.

The walk-in refrigerator/freezer — large refrigerated room.

Warehouse Management System (Manhattan, NetSuite WMS, Logiwa).

Current assets minus current liabilities — short-term financial health.

Plot of bond yields across different maturities.

Never trust the network — verify every request.