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