Shopping Vocabulary and Sustainable Consumption
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Shopping Vocabulary
- Afford: to have enough money to buy something
- Auction: a public sale where items are sold to the highest bidder
- Bargain: a good deal or a lower price
- Boutique: a small shop that sells fashionable clothes or accessories
- Brand: a particular company's product or line of products
- Browse: to look at items in a shop without buying anything
- Cashier: a person who handles payments and receipts in a shop
- Changing Room: a room in a shop where customers can try on clothes
- Charity Shop: a shop that sells second-hand items to raise money for charity
- Customer: a person who buys goods or services from a shop
- Deliver: to bring goods or services to a person's location
- Department Store: a large shop that sells a wide variety of products
- Exchange: to give something back and receive something else in return
- Get a Discount: to receive a reduction in price
- Order: to request and pay for goods or services
- Pay in Cash: to use physical money to make a payment
- Personal Shopper: a person who helps customers choose and buy items
- Refund: to receive money back for a returned item
- Rip Someone Off: to overcharge or cheat someone
- Sales: a period of time when items are sold at reduced prices
- Sales Assistant: a person who helps customers in a shop
- Save Up: to keep money for future use
- Second-hand: previously owned or used by someone else
- Shopping Trip: a journey to go shopping
- Sweatshop: a factory where workers are exploited and paid very low wages
- Window Shopping: to look at items in shop windows without buying anything
Sustainable Consumption
Biodegradable: capable of being decomposed by natural processes
Compost: decayed organic material used as a fertilizer
Consume: to use up or eat or drink
Consumer: a person who buys and uses goods or services
Consumption: the act of using up goods or services
Dispose: to throw away or get rid of something
Disposable: designed to be thrown away after use
Dump: to get rid of something in an irresponsible way
Dumped: thrown away or abandoned
Emit: to release or give off
Emission: the act of releasing something, especially gas or radiation
Environmental: relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on it
Incinerate: to burn something completely
Incinerator: a machine or facility used for incineration
Telephone Vocabulary
- Call Back: to return a phone call
- Cut Someone Off: to interrupt or end a phone conversation abruptly
- Get Through: to successfully make contact with someone by phone
- Hang Up: to end a phone call by putting the receiver down
- Listen In: to secretly listen to someone's phone conversation
- Make a Call: to initiate a phone call
- Quieten Down: to reduce the volume or noise level during a phone call
- Ring Up: to make a phone call
- Run Out Of: to use all of something and have no more left
- Switch Off: to turn off a phone or electronic device
- Top Up: to add credit or money to a phone or account
- Turn Down: to decrease the volume or sound level during a phone call
Expressions Related to Shopping and Spending
- Be Bitten by the Bug: to become very interested or enthusiastic about something
- Be Hooked On: to be addicted or obsessed with something
- Be on a High: to feel very happy or excited
- Be Up to Your Eyeballs: to be very busy or deeply involved in something
- Cost an Arm and a Leg: to be very expensive
- Feel Down: to feel sad or depressed
- Get Out of Hand: to become out of control
- Go on a Spending Spree: to spend a lot of money in a short period of time
- Live from Hand to Mouth: to have just enough money to cover basic expenses
- Retail Therapy: the act of shopping to improve one's mood or emotional well-being
- Tighten Your Belt: to reduce spending and live more frugally