Definition helps to reduce confusion and promote a common understanding and interpretation of clauses in this standard.  While a defined word or phrase can have several other meanings or connotations its usage and interpretation in the clauses should be restricted to the definition provided below.  Where a particular term or phrase is not included its common usage should apply. These terms and their definitions can be found in http://www.BCMpedia.org, an international collection of industry business continuity and disaster recovery terminologies. 

• Alternate site
• Awareness
• BCM steering committee
• Business Continuity
• Business continuity management (BCM)
• Business continuity plan (BC plan)
• Business continuity planning (BCP)
• Business function
• Business impact analysis (BIA)
• Business unit
• Business unit BCM coordinator
• Cold Site
• Critical
• Critical functions/critical business functions (CBFs)
• Damage Assessment
• Disaster
• Disaster recovery
• Disaster Recovery plan
• Disruption
• Education
• Emergency
• Emergency  operations center (EOC)
• Executive management
• Exercise
• Hazard
• Hot site
• Incident
• Infrastructure
• Minimum business continuity objective (MBCO)
• Organization
• Organization BCM coordinator
• People
• Policy
• Procedure
• Process
• Program Management
• Recovery time objective (RTO)
• Resilience
• Risk
• Risk acceptance
• Risk avoidance
• Risk reduction
• Risk transfer
• Risk treatment
• Simulation
• Test
• Threat
• Training
• Vital record
• Walk-through
• Warm site