lunes, 6 de septiembre de 2010

Business English Vocabulary

Positive and negative information about the company:
 Upgrowing.- The firm is expanding
Downsizing.- When the firm reduce the personal
Woundown.- Reduce or stop something. (Kick back)

Words about work:
Network.- Contact of you job
Lazzy.- Someone inefficient
Useless.- Someone who doesn't have to do
Bossy.- People who is authoritarian and dominant
Being late.- People who aren't punctual 
Fired.- When you lose your job.
Synonyms of fired:
  • Dismiss
  • Let go
  • Contract
  • Not renewed
  • Lay off
Some Vocabulary:
Jargon.- Indirect language
Margins.- A set of constraints conceptualized as a border
Appraisals.- A decision analysis or a decision method
Chains.- The origin of something. For example a Business chain or a supply chain.
Budgets.-  It is a plan for saving and spending. For example a budget line.
Procedures.- Is a specified series of actions or operations which have to be executed in the same manner in order to always obtain the same result under the same circumstances


Phrasal verbs:
Call the shots.- When you are responsable of someting
Face music.- When you face the consequences of your acts
Jump the fence.- Breaking limits
Sit on the fence.- Not take a position in a situation
Carriying a can.- Be responsible for the acts of someone else
Cross the line.- Exceed the limits
Walk the line.- Follow the rules
Passing a buck.- Give the responsability to someone else

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