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