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Business English Vocab
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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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1. Increase or improve after falling in value or getting worse
solve
recession
rocket
forecast
2. 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
labor force
economies of scale
motivation
progressive
3. 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
centralize
gross
forecast
labor force
4. 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
sponsor
trade deficit
flexible
5. Money that a business or organisation receives over a period of time - especially from selling goods or services - gross - income
interest
revenue
subsidiary
headquarters
6. The amount by which the money going out of a country to pay for imports is more than the amount coming in from exports
corporate
progressive
trade deficit
appointment
7. Arranged in a hierarchy - gradable - graded - ranked - stratified - vertical
interest rate
bureaucratic
currency
hierarchical
8. 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
borrow
corporate culture
distribution center
dividend
9. Someone who owns shares in a company
bureaucratic
revenue
share holders
outsource
10. An occasion when two or more companies - organisations - etc join together to form a larger company - etc
motivation
contract
merger
headquarters
11. In order to try and solve this problem - work
revenue
progressive
subsidiary
solve
12. 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
recession
parent company
merger
economies of scale
13. To move the control of an organization or government from a single place to several smaller ones - alter - change - modify
quarterly
hierarchical
decentralize
gross
14. The system or type of money used in a particular country
economies of scale
currency
launch
progressive
15. Always changing and developing: active - can-do
borrow
dynamic
caring
interest
16. A period of time when an economy or industry is doing badly - and business activity and employment decrease
recession
outsource
hierarchical
decentralize
17. Describes someone who is kind and gives emotional support to others - fond - warm - love
caring
human resources
trade deficit
headquarters
18. Not involving or taking unnecessary risks - cautious - button-down - right - adult - grownup
caring
headquarters
conservative
sponsor
19. Without human warmth and interest - neutral - objective
share holders
impersonal
borrow
parent company
20. Relating to a company - usually a large one - or business in general
rocket
corporate
centralize
interest rate
21. The head office or main building of an organization
launch
sponsor
flexible
headquarters
22. 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
interest rate
appointment
sponsor
trade deficit
23. An arrangement to meet someone at a particular time and place
borrow
human resources
share holders
appointment
24. A small amount of a product that people can use or look at in order to find out what it is like
contract
sample
interest
forecast
25. Employ another company to do one's work
bankruptcy
dynamic
insurance broker
outsource
26. The difference between the price of a product or service and the cost of producing it - rank - pure - fat - earn - gain - make
human resources
flexible
borrow
gross
27. Developing or happening gradually - reformist - forward - industrial - active - advanced - advancing - degressive - graduated - increasing - innovative - liberal - modern - modernised - modernized - imperfect - liberalist - adult - grownup - tense
motivation
outsource
gross
progressive
28. The percentage charged for borrowing money or a percentage you receive when you put money in a bank - make an investment - etc
flexible
interest rate
labor force
quarterly
29. Money that you earn from your job or that you receive from invesments
dynamic
income
appointment
centralize
30. A formal - written agreeement between two or more people or groups which says what each must do for the other - or must to do
bankruptcy
contract
appointment
trade deficit
31. 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
merger
bankruptcy
caring
bureaucratic
32. 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
corporate culture
centralize
recession
solve
33. 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
distribution center
decentralize
human resources
34. A company that is at least half-owned by another company
rocket
gross
flexible
subsidiary
35. To show or make a new product available for sale for the first time
distribution center
progressive
decentralize
launch
36. Statement saying what is likely to happen in the future - based on information that is available now - figure - predict - call - judge - point - promise - signal
forecast
corporate
appointment
sponsor
37. happening or produced once every three months
interest rate
gross
centralize
quarterly
38. 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
gross
currency
dividend
progressive
39. The beliefs and ideas that a company has and the way in which they affect how it does business and how its employees behave
corporate culture
subsidiary
caring
interest
40. A company that owns at least half the shares in the other company - and has control over it
sample
parent company
currency
appointment
41. The department in an organisation that deals with employing - training and helping employees
corporate culture
economies of scale
human resources
quarterly
42. 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)
decentralize
interest
quarterly
human resources
43. Involving or having a lot of complicated and unnecessary official rules - official - functionary - officialdom
distribution center
outsource
bureaucratic
economies of scale
44. 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
quarterly
motivation
centralize