Business Vocabulary and Phrases: Mastering Key Concepts

Business Vocabulary and Phrases

Tema 9

a) Opportunities: increase competition, create unemployment, reduce poverty, exploit workers, widen the gap, mean lower prices, give large companies advantages, lead to environmental damage, promote higher standards.

b) Vocabulary:

• Free trade: the computer industry...
• Laissez-faire, transport companies... regulation
• France sees banking as a strategic industry
• In an open market... restrictions
• Since deregulation, prior to 2007... free port
• China’s... dumping
• The president... liberalise
• In the EU... barriers
• Some companies... subsidise

c) We are glad... order, without... protected, they have quoted, it is essential to have regulations, our usual meet, Kentroil market, it is useful to carry out.

Tema 10

a) She doesn’t... cautious, he’s very good... critical, he’s serious... formal, she has very clear... idealistic, he is very ruthless, our boss is... approachable, he’s very conservative, he doesn’t like..., she is very principled.

b) What they need... decisive, what I like about... encouraging, as a team leader... realistic, many people... diffident, Martin... approachable, the new office... radical. I have too... take over, the last come, the new manager deal, Rick was ruthless, he had was, a number put.

Business Idioms and Passive Voice

12)

a) A level playing field, in the driving seat, flogging a dead horse, a major player, move the goalpost, keep your eye on the ball, ahead of the game, a one-horse race, on the ropes.

b)

1. It’s not a level playing field.
2. They are so far ahead, it's a one-horse race.
3. There’s no point flogging a dead horse.
4. With our market in the driving seat.
5. We have exactly neck and neck, although a major player.

c) To be up to the job, to hand in your notice, to take on extra work, to come in for a hard time, to deal with issues, put forward an argument.

Passives:

1. Someone's samples are tested.
2. Every member of us read.
3. A company driver will be met.
4. We must review.
5. They have closed.
6. We are currently developing.

d) A number have recently been accused, Arnotov’s will be sold/is estimated, currently are owned, Google was founded, liquid is known/are not supplied, there are currently being discussed.

e) In business, keep our eye on the ball, the Korean playing field, Microsoft neck and neck, newly in the driving seat, the years ago flogging a dead horse.

f) Government move the goalpost, there were a one-horse race, Starlite is ahead of the game, because of on the ropes, the USA is a major player.

g) Lowering to the competition, many come with, if they invest keep up with, local clothes gainst/off, if you opened be up against. Unfair, intense, fierce, tough, strong.