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Business English Vocab
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Subjects
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business-skills
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 44 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. To remove authority in a system - company - country - etc. from local places to one central place so that the whole system - etc. is under central control - alter - change - modify
centralize
currency
corporate
headquarters
2. Without human warmth and interest - neutral - objective
impersonal
flexible
insurance broker
sponsor
3. Money that you earn from your job or that you receive from invesments
parent company
gross
income
economies of scale
4. A period of time when an economy or industry is doing badly - and business activity and employment decrease
solve
centralize
recession
quarterly
5. Developing or happening gradually - reformist - forward - industrial - active - advanced - advancing - degressive - graduated - increasing - innovative - liberal - modern - modernised - modernized - imperfect - liberalist - adult - grownup - tense
hierarchical
income
conservative
progressive
6. All the people in a particular country who are of the right age to work or all the people who work for a particular company
labor force
corporate culture
parent company
sample
7. The beliefs and ideas that a company has and the way in which they affect how it does business and how its employees behave
centralize
corporate culture
hierarchical
bankruptcy
8. A company that owns at least half the shares in the other company - and has control over it
parent company
forecast
conservative
quarterly
9. Involving or having a lot of complicated and unnecessary official rules - official - functionary - officialdom
bureaucratic
hierarchical
sponsor
quarterly
10. A small amount of a product that people can use or look at in order to find out what it is like
conservative
forecast
sample
revenue
11. Money that a business or organisation receives over a period of time - especially from selling goods or services - gross - income
gross
revenue
trade deficit
quarterly
12. Employ another company to do one's work
outsource
progressive
flexible
bankruptcy
13. Relating to a company - usually a large one - or business in general
sample
revenue
forecast
corporate
14. To show or make a new product available for sale for the first time
trade deficit
progressive
centralize
launch
15. Someone who owns shares in a company
bureaucratic
share holders
impersonal
headquarters
16. Statement saying what is likely to happen in the future - based on information that is available now - figure - predict - call - judge - point - promise - signal
quarterly
forecast
centralize
parent company
17. An amount paid by a borrower to a lender - for example to a bank by someone borrowing money for a loan or by a bank to a depositor (=someone keeping moeny in an account there)
income
borrow
insurance broker
interest
18. Not involving or taking unnecessary risks - cautious - button-down - right - adult - grownup
quarterly
conservative
currency
dynamic
19. Money borrowed from a bank financial institution - person - etc on which interest is usually paid to the lender until it is repaid - adopt - get - have - take
progressive
interest rate
borrow
share holders
20. Give money to pay for a television programme - a sports or arts event - training - etc in exchange for advertising or to get public attention - helper
rocket
sponsor
human resources
income
21. The system or type of money used in a particular country
forecast
currency
corporate culture
sample
22. The reduction of prodution costs that is a result of making and selling goods in large quantities - for example - the ability to buy larger amounts of materials at reduced prices
subsidiary
interest rate
economies of scale
corporate culture
23. A warehouse and the business based there - that stores a manufacturer's goods temporarily - before they are transported to stores or customers for sale
distribution center
progressive
merger
sponsor
24. A company that is at least half-owned by another company
subsidiary
headquarters
interest rate
bureaucratic
25. Increase or improve after falling in value or getting worse
income
gross
conservative
rocket
26. Always changing and developing: active - can-do
gross
caring
impersonal
dynamic
27. The difference between the price of a product or service and the cost of producing it - rank - pure - fat - earn - gain - make
hierarchical
gross
progressive
impersonal
28. A flexible person or company can work in different ways - at different times - or in different places when it is necessary - flexile - elastic - pliable - pliant - whippy - limber - supple
income
outsource
currency
flexible
29. When someone is judged to be unable to pay their debts by a court of law - and their assets are shared a mong the people and businesses that they owe money to
outsource
caring
bankruptcy
labor force
30. Arranged in a hierarchy - gradable - graded - ranked - stratified - vertical
sample
centralize
dividend
hierarchical
31. To move the control of an organization or government from a single place to several smaller ones - alter - change - modify
distribution center
hierarchical
merger
decentralize
32. A formal - written agreeement between two or more people or groups which says what each must do for the other - or must to do
human resources
conservative
contract
merger
33. Describes someone who is kind and gives emotional support to others - fond - warm - love
economies of scale
interest rate
caring
appointment
34. A part of the profits of a company for a particular period of time that is paid to shareholders for each share that they own
dividend
share holders
outsource
conservative
35. A person or company whose job is to give people independent advice about what insurance is available from different companies - and to arrange insurance for them
insurance broker
currency
outsource
centralize
36. In order to try and solve this problem - work
dynamic
motivation
solve
distribution center
37. The head office or main building of an organization
merger
interest rate
contract
headquarters
38. An arrangement to meet someone at a particular time and place
appointment
borrow
impersonal
outsource
39. The department in an organisation that deals with employing - training and helping employees
corporate
human resources
income
parent company
40. happening or produced once every three months
quarterly
parent company
borrow
bureaucratic
41. An occasion when two or more companies - organisations - etc join together to form a larger company - etc
progressive
merger
motivation
insurance broker
42. The amount by which the money going out of a country to pay for imports is more than the amount coming in from exports
launch
trade deficit
economies of scale
dividend
43. Something which is used to encourage people to do something - especially to make them work harder - produce more or spend more money - motive - need - act - condition - status
launch
bureaucratic
motivation
human resources
44. The percentage charged for borrowing money or a percentage you receive when you put money in a bank - make an investment - etc
dynamic
labor force
corporate
interest rate