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The aim of this article is to present the assumptions underlying the construction and analysis of business terms in the dictionary of business terms of 1870-1914. All lexical units incorporated into the discussed dictionary are selected from a particular column of the Kraków daily newspaper “Czas”. The research into business terms taken originally from daily newspapers was facilitated by the prototype semantics theory and the concept of frames and scenes, the use of which enables the attribution of analyzed linguistic structures to real life objects as well as to a human being as a cognising subject. It is the prototype semantics theory that the article discusses first in the context of rules for the reconstruction of the semantic representation of terms incorporated into the dictionary of business terms of 1870-1914. The concept of frame semantics by Charles Fillmore is discussed later as a tool useful in the interpretation of the prepared glossary.