Essential English Vocabulary: Business Terms, Phrasal Verbs, and Regional Differences
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Essential English Vocabulary for Professionals
Workplace Nouns (English to Spanish)
- Chatterbox: parlanchín
- Deadline: fecha límite
- Knowledge: conocimiento
- Overtime: horas extras
- Privilege: privilegio
- Rise: aumento
- Shift: turno
- Staff: plantilla
- Stuff: cosas
- Team player: jugador de equipo
Key Verbs for Career Development
- Challenge: desafiar
- Commute: viajar diariamente
- Fire: despedir
- Flourish: florecer
- Freelance: autónomo
- Presume: suponer
- Promote: promocionar
- Propose: proponer
- Raise: obtener
- Resign: rendirse (or dimitir/renunciar)
- Switch: cambiar
Professional Adjectives
- Accomplished: realizado
- Assertive: firme
- Conscientious: concienciado
- Devoted: dedicado
- Experienced: experimentado
- Pushy: avasallador
- Reliable: fiable
- Rewarding: reconfortable
- Self-employed: autónomo
- Skilled: profesional
- Trustworthy: de confianza, fiable
- Unapproachable: inalcanzable
Useful Business Expressions
- Be bound to: estar seguro de
- Down to earth: con los pies en el suelo
- Get training: prepararse
- Common sense: sentido común
- In charge of: a cargo de
- Odd jobs: chapuzas
- People skills: don de gentes
- Run a business: dirigir un negocio
- Run away: huir, escapar
- See the point: encontrar el sentido
- Steady job: trabajo fijo
- Work well under pressure: trabajar bajo presión
Common Phrasal Verbs
| Phrasal Verb | Spanish Translation |
|---|---|
| Back off | retroceder |
| Back up | retroceder |
| Drive up | Llegar en un coche |
| Break into | asaltar |
| Break down | averiarse |
| Break up | Romper/separar |
| Run into | Toparse con |
| Run over | atropellar |
| Run down | atropellar |
| Run off | huir |
| Run up | Subir por algo |
| Speed up | acelerar |
| Fill up | Llenar |
British vs. American English Dictionary
The following list provides common British English terms and their American English equivalents:
- Aeroplane: airplane
- Aubergine: eggplant
- Biscuit: cookie
- Bonnet (of a car): hood
- Boot: trunk
- Braces: suspenders
- Car park: parking lot
- Casualty: emergency room
- Chemist: drugstore
- Chips: french fries
- Cinema: the movies
- Cos (lettuce): romaine
- Courgette: zucchini
- Crash barrier: guardrail
- Crisps: chips, potato chips
- Dressing gown: robe, bathrobe
- Drinks cupboard: liquor cabinet
- Driving licence: driver's license
- Dustbin: garbage can
- Earth (electrical): ground
- Fire brigade service: fire company
- Fish finger: fish stick
- Flat: apartment
- Football: soccer
- Full stop: period
- Garden: yard, lawn
- Grill: broiler
- Holiday: vacation
- Ice lolly: popsicle
- Junior school: elementary school
- Lift: elevator
- Lollipop lady: crossing guard
- Lorry: truck
- Mobile phone: cell phone
- Motorway: freeway, highway
- Nappy: diaper
- Number plate: license plate
- Paracetamol: acetaminophen
- Pavement: sidewalk
- Pedestrian crossing: crosswalk
- Petrol: gas, gasoline
- Postbox: mailbox
- Postcode: zip code
- Potato crisp: potato chips
- Press-up: pushup
- Queue: line
- Recorded delivery: certified mail
- Registration plate: license plate
- Roundabout: traffic circle
- Silencer: muffler
- Starter: appetizer
- Takeaway: takeout, to go
- Touch wood: knock on wood
- Trade union: labor union
- Trainers: sneakers
- Tram: trolley
- Underground: subway
- Trolley: shopping cart
- Verge: shoulder
- Wardrobe: closet
- Windscreen: windshield
- Wing: fender
- Zebra Crossing: crosswalk
- Zed: zee
- Zip: zipper