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