Words and Meaning of " English for Business"

1. Unit 2

1.1. Bonuses: Something given, paid, or received above what is due or expected.

1.2. Esteem: To regard highly or favourably.

1.3. Hierarchy: A system of persons or things arranged in a graded order.

1.4. Motivation: A reason or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way.

1.5. Perks: Become or make more cheerful, lively, or interesting.

1.6. Potential: Possible but not yet actual.

1.7. Repetitive: when someone repeats the same thing more than twice.

1.8. Satisfaction: Fulfilment of one's wishes, expectations, or needs, or the pleasure derived from this.

1.9. Theories: A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something.

1.10. wages: A fixed regular payment earned for work or services, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis.

2. Unit 1

2.1. Analysing: To examine in detail in order to discover meaning.

2.2. Colleages: A fellow worker or member of a staff.

2.3. Crisis: A crucial stage or turning point in the course of something.

2.4. Distributors: A person or thing that distributes.

2.5. Innovations: Something newly introduced, such as a new method or device.

2.6. Modify: To change the structure, character, intent.

2.7. Objectives: Something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish.

2.8. Profits: An advantageous gain or return.

2.9. Resources: Something that can be used for support or help.

2.10. Subordinates: A person under the authority or control of another within an organization.

3. Unit 3

3.1. Autonomous: Acting independently or having the freedom to do so.

3.2. Budget: An annual or other regular estimate of national revenue and expenditure put forward by the government, often including details of changes in taxation.

3.3. Cooperate: Assist someone or comply with their requests.

3.4. Factory: A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.

3.5. Full Capacity: Fully occupying the available area or space.

3.6. Human Resources: The personnel of a business or organization, especially when regarded as a significant asset.

3.7. Merger: A combination of two things, especially companies, into one.

3.8. Organization: An organized body of people with a particular purpose, especially a business, society, association.

3.9. Permission: An official document giving authorisation.

3.10. Takeover: An act of assuming control of something, especially the buying out of one company by another.

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5. Unit 4

5.1. Acquisition: An asset or object bought or obtained, typically by a library or museum.

5.2. Collectivist: subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively

5.3. Corporate Objective: realistic and measurable goals which an organization plans to achieve within a given period of time.

5.4. Diversity: a range of different things.

5.5. Glocalization: the practice of conducting business according to both local and global considerations.

5.6. Hierarchy: a system in which members of an organization or society are ranked according to relative status or authority.

5.7. Linear-active: Usually runs across the property various different landowners.

5.8. Logical: of or according to the rules of logic or formal argument.

5.9. Multinational: a company operating in several countries.

5.10. Stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

6. Unit 5

6.1. Candidate: a person who applies for a job or is nominated for election.

6.2. Covering Letter: a letter sent with, and explaining the contents of, another document or a parcel of goods.

6.3. Headhunters: a recruiter of personnel (especially for corporations)

6.4. Job Interview: face to face conference which occurs so as to determine the suitability of the applicant for an employment position

6.5. Junior: low or lower in rank or status.

6.6. Psychology: the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behaviour in a given context.

6.7. Quit: leve a place like home or job.

6.8. Referee: a person willing to testify in writing about the character or ability of someone

6.9. Senor: of a more advanced age.

6.10. Vacancy: an unoccupied position or job.

7. Unit 6

7.1. Accountability: the fact or condition of being accountable,

7.2. Appointed: (of a time or place) decided on beforehand; designated.

7.3. Consumer: a person who purchases goods and services for personal use.

7.4. Discrimination: recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another.

7.5. Gender: the state of being male or female.

7.6. Ratio: the quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other.

7.7. Sacked: dismiss from employment.

7.8. Strategic: relating to the identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and the means of achieving them.

7.9. Society: the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.

7.10. Profit: a financial gain, especially the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something.