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