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Business analysis vocabulary

Words for business analysis, each with its meaning in English and Hindi, how to say it, a sentence that shows it in use, and what to say instead or the opposite.

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aggregate

/AG-ri-guht/

A total formed by combining separate figures.

कुल योग; सब भागों को मिलाकर बना पूरा

“The aggregate churn figure hides two very different customer segments.”

Synonyms: total, combined, collective, sum

Antonyms: individual, discrete, separate, itemised

disaggregate

/dis-AG-ri-gayt/

To break a combined figure into its component parts.

विघटित करना; समुच्चय को अलग-अलग भागों में बाँटना

“Disaggregate the revenue by region before you draw any conclusion.”

Synonyms: break down, separate, itemise, decompose

Antonyms: aggregate, combine, consolidate, lump together

correlation

/kor-uh-LAY-shuhn/

A statistical relationship in which two things move together.

सहसंबंध; दो बातों के बीच का पारस्परिक नाता

“A strong correlation between usage and renewal is not yet a cause.”

Synonyms: association, relationship, co-variation, linkage

Antonyms: independence, dissociation, randomness, unrelatedness

causation

/kaw-ZAY-shuhn/

A relationship in which one thing actually produces another.

कारणत्व; एक बात से दूसरी के होने का संबंध

“Proving causation needs an experiment, not another dashboard.”

Synonyms: cause and effect, origination, determination, agency

Antonyms: coincidence, correlation, chance, happenstance

anomaly

/uh-NOM-uh-lee/

Something that deviates from what is standard or expected.

विसंगति; सामान्य क्रम से हटकर दिखने वाली बात

“The Tuesday spike is an anomaly caused by a single batch job.”

Synonyms: outlier, aberration, irregularity, deviation

Antonyms: norm, regularity, standard, pattern

outlier

/OWT-ly-ur/

A data point far outside the normal range.

अपवाद-बिंदु; बाकी सबसे अलग पड़ने वाला

“One outlier account distorts the average contract value badly.”

Synonyms: anomaly, exception, aberration, extreme value

Antonyms: norm, average, typical case, mainstream

granular

/GRAN-yuh-lur/

Broken down into small, specific units of detail.

सूक्ष्म-विभाजित; बारीक स्तर तक ब्योरेवार

“We need granular cost data per service, not one cloud invoice.”

Synonyms: detailed, fine-grained, itemised, specific

Antonyms: coarse, aggregated, high-level, broad-brush

robust

/roh-BUHST/

Strong enough to remain reliable under stress or variation.

सुदृढ़; बलिष्ठ और टिकाऊ

“A robust estimate survives a change in one questionable assumption.”

Synonyms: strong, reliable, sturdy, dependable

Antonyms: fragile, flimsy, unreliable, brittle

spurious

/SPYOOR-ee-uhs/

False or illegitimate despite appearing genuine.

कूट; नकली और झूठा

“The relationship turned out to be spurious once we controlled for season.”

Synonyms: false, bogus, illegitimate, counterfeit

Antonyms: genuine, valid, authentic, legitimate

specious

/SPEE-shuhs/

Superficially plausible but actually wrong.

आभासी सत्य; ऊपर से ठीक पर भीतर से गलत

“It is a specious argument: correct arithmetic on the wrong denominator.”

Synonyms: misleading, deceptive, fallacious, plausible but false

Antonyms: sound, valid, cogent, truthful

fallacy

/FAL-uh-see/

A mistaken belief based on faulty reasoning.

तर्कदोष; भ्रांत धारणा

“The sunk-cost fallacy keeps dead projects alive for another quarter.”

Synonyms: misconception, error, delusion, falsehood

Antonyms: truth, fact, verity, sound reasoning

quantitative

/KWON-ti-tay-tiv/

Concerned with amounts that can be measured and counted.

मात्रात्मक; संख्या और माप से संबंधित

“Pair the quantitative funnel data with five customer interviews.”

Synonyms: numerical, measurable, statistical, metric

Antonyms: qualitative, descriptive, impressionistic, non-numerical

qualitative

/KWOL-i-tay-tiv/

Concerned with qualities and descriptions rather than numbers.

गुणात्मक; गुण से संबंधित, संख्या से नहीं

“Qualitative feedback explains why the number moved, not whether it did.”

Synonyms: descriptive, interpretive, non-numerical, experiential

Antonyms: quantitative, numerical, measurable, statistical

proxy

/PROK-see/

A measurable stand-in for something you cannot measure directly.

प्रतिनिधि; किसी की ओर से काम करने वाला

“Weekly active users is a poor proxy for value in a batch product.”

Synonyms: stand-in, substitute, surrogate, representative

Antonyms: original, principal, direct measure, firsthand source

inference

/IN-fur-uhns/

A conclusion reached by reasoning from evidence.

निगमन; प्रमाणों से निकाला गया निष्कर्ष

“That inference depends on assuming the sample is representative.”

Synonyms: deduction, conclusion, reasoning, extrapolation

Antonyms: observation, raw fact, measurement, datum

hypothesis

/hy-POTH-uh-sis/

A proposed explanation put forward for testing.

परिकल्पना; जाँच के लिए रखा गया प्रस्तावित उत्तर

“State the hypothesis before you look at the dashboard, not after.”

Synonyms: proposition, theory, premise, supposition

Antonyms: conclusion, proof, certainty, established fact

premise

/PREM-is/

A statement assumed true as the basis for an argument.

आधार-कथन; जिस पर तर्क खड़ा हो

“The whole model rests on a premise nobody has revisited since 2023.”

Synonyms: assumption, proposition, basis, postulate

Antonyms: conclusion, consequence, corollary, inference

corollary

/KOR-uh-ler-ee/

Something that follows naturally from what has been shown.

उपसिद्धांत; किसी बात से स्वतः निकलने वाला निष्कर्ष

“A corollary of the pricing change is that support volume will rise.”

Synonyms: consequence, upshot, result, offshoot

Antonyms: premise, cause, precondition, antecedent

attribute

/uh-TRIB-yoot/

To assign a result to a particular cause or source.

आरोपित करना; किसी को कारण या गुण के रूप में जोड़ना

“We attribute the lift to the new onboarding, but three things changed.”

Synonyms: ascribe, credit, assign, impute

Antonyms: dissociate, deny, disclaim, detach

mitigate

/MIT-i-gayt/

To make something bad less severe.

शमन करना; तीव्रता या कष्ट घटा देना

“We cannot remove the risk, but we can mitigate it with a staged rollout.”

Synonyms: alleviate, lessen, moderate, temper

Antonyms: aggravate, exacerbate, intensify, worsen

exacerbate

/ig-ZAS-ur-bayt/

To make a bad situation worse.

और बिगाड़ देना; स्थिति को अधिक गंभीर बना देना

“Adding people mid-incident tends to exacerbate the confusion.”

Synonyms: aggravate, worsen, intensify, compound

Antonyms: alleviate, mitigate, ease, ameliorate

ameliorate

/uh-MEEL-yuh-rayt/

To improve a poor condition or situation.

सुधार लाना; स्थिति को बेहतर बना देना

“Better error messages ameliorate the support load without a rewrite.”

Synonyms: improve, better, alleviate, upgrade

Antonyms: worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, impair

volatile

/VOL-uh-tyl/

Liable to rapid and unpredictable change.

अस्थिर; तेज़ी से बदलने या भड़कने वाला

“Demand is volatile enough that annual capacity planning is theatre.”

Synonyms: unstable, erratic, unpredictable, turbulent

Antonyms: stable, steady, predictable, consistent

marginal

/MAR-juh-nuhl/

So small as to make little practical difference.

सीमांत; बहुत मामूली या किनारे का

“The gain is marginal once you account for the extra maintenance.”

Synonyms: slight, negligible, peripheral, borderline

Antonyms: substantial, significant, central, considerable

negligible

/NEG-li-juh-buhl/

Too small to be worth considering.

नगण्य; इतना कम कि ध्यान देने योग्य नहीं

“Storage cost is negligible next to the egress charges.”

Synonyms: trivial, insignificant, minute, inconsequential

Antonyms: significant, substantial, considerable, material

nominal

/NOM-uh-nuhl/

Existing in name only, or very small in amount.

नाममात्र का; कहने भर को और बहुत मामूली

“The nominal fee exists to deter abuse, not to make money.”

Synonyms: token, in name only, notional, minimal

Antonyms: actual, real, substantial, effective

discrepancy

/di-SKREP-uhn-see/

A difference between things that should agree.

विसंगति; दो विवरणों में न मिलने वाला अंतर

“The discrepancy between billing and usage reports is four percent.”

Synonyms: inconsistency, variance, mismatch, divergence

Antonyms: agreement, consistency, conformity, match

disparity

/di-SPAR-i-tee/

A noticeable and often unfair difference.

विषमता; स्पष्ट रूप से अनुचित अंतर

“The disparity in tooling between the two teams explains the velocity gap.”

Synonyms: inequality, gap, imbalance, difference

Antonyms: parity, equality, equivalence, uniformity

parity

/PAR-i-tee/

The state of being equal, especially in status or amount.

समता; दर्जे या मात्रा में बराबरी

“Feature parity with the old system is the bar for switching off.”

Synonyms: equality, equivalence, par, balance

Antonyms: disparity, imbalance, inequality, discrepancy

obsolete

/ob-suh-LEET/

No longer produced, used or useful.

अप्रचलित; अब चलन से बाहर

“The report is generated by an obsolete script nobody can build.”

Synonyms: outdated, antiquated, superseded, disused

Antonyms: current, modern, cutting-edge, up-to-date

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