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