{
  "id": "dwd_xzf7arim",
  "type": "term",
  "slug": "business-glossary",
  "title": "Business glossary",
  "summary": "The organization's agreed vocabulary: business terms, their definitions, synonyms and relationships.",
  "status": "draft",
  "classification": "public",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Shan Umasankar",
      "url": "https://dealwithdata.com",
      "role": "author"
    }
  ],
  "assisted_by": [
    "Claude"
  ],
  "scales": [
    "personal",
    "business",
    "enterprise"
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    "glossary"
  ],
  "broader": [
    "dwd_6azimhas"
  ],
  "related": [
    "dwd_wg5zzqg2",
    "dwd_2p63wxfx"
  ],
  "created": "2026-10-07",
  "updated": "2026-10-07",
  "version": 1,
  "url": "https://dealwithdata.com/glossary/business-glossary/",
  "markdown_url": "https://dealwithdata.com/glossary/business-glossary.md",
  "body_markdown": "A business glossary holds the words the business uses and what each one means, independent of any system. It is where \"Customer\", \"Active Account\" and \"Outstanding Balance\" get one agreed definition each, with synonyms and relationships between terms.\n\n**Example:** *Outstanding Balance*: unpaid principal owed as of a date. Synonyms: UPB, principal balance.\n\n**Not to be confused with** a [[data-dictionary]] (one system's columns) or a [[data-catalog]] (the inventory of everything).\n"
}