EN: Voc EX01, selection

EN: Voc EX01, selection

EN: Voc EX01, selection


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This flashcard set helps learn English at an intermediate level, focusing on business and economic vocabulary. The vocabulary flashcards cover terms like "redundancy," "turnover," and "recruitment," essential for understanding business contexts. With the "answer first" learning setting, you can reverse the learning direction – from the target language to the source language. Ideal for professionals, students, or anyone looking to enhance their business English, these cards support progress in both formal and informal communication.
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English
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Created / Updated
21.04.2016 / 23.04.2016

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appraisal

Description:

a meeting in which an employee discusses his or her progress, aims, and needs at work with his or her manager or employer:

Example:

Many companies operate regular job appraisals, often on an annual basis.

 

recession

Description:

 a temporary fall in a country’s or the world’s business activities

Example:

The country is currently going through a recession.

payslips

a piece of paper given to someone who is employed to show how much money they have earned and how much tax has been taken off

marketing plan

A marketing plan is a business document written for the purpose of describing the current market position of a business and its marketing strategy for the period covered by the marketing plan. Marketing plans usually cover a period of one to five years.

white-collar

Bürojob

franchise

the exclusive right to sell or supply a certain product or service.

allocated

to give something to someone as their share of a total amount, to use in a particular way:
The government is allocating £10 million for health education.

shop steward

a worker elected by workers in a factory or business to represent them in discussions with the management, usually a member of a trade union

delegates

a person chosen or elected by a group to speak, vote, etc. for them, especially at a meeting:
Each union elects several delegates to the annual conference.

selection

a collection or group of things that have been selected
die Auswahl
a selection of verses/fruit.

submitted

to give or offer something for a decision to be made by others:
You must submit your application before 1 January.

testimonial

a (written) statement saying what one knows about a person’s character, abilities etc

dispute

to argue (about)

scheduled

arranged to happen at a particular time:
He went to the doctor on Wednesday for a previously scheduled appointment.

precaution

care taken to avoid accidents, disease etc

plaintiff

a person who starts a legal case against another
der Kläger

recruitment

hiring of workers

appointment

arrangement to meet someone; I made an appointment to see him.

incurs

to experience something, usually something unpleasant, as a result of actions you have taken:

prosecution

the person/people bringing a legal action, including the lawyer(s) representing them

receipts

the amount of money received during a particular period by a business or government:

blue-collar

Industrie / Handwerker

peak

the highest, greatest, busiest etc point, time etc
der Gipfel
He was at the peak of his career.

excesses

actions beyond the limit of what is acceptable

publicity

advertising
die Werbung
There is a lot of publicity about the dangers of smoking.

word of mouth

by one person telling another in speech, not in writing
mündlich
She got the information by word of mouth.

selection committee

a group of people who choose someone to do a job, be involved in an activity, etc

remuneration

to pay (someone) for something he has done.

bankruptcy

unable to pay one’s debts

tribunal

a group of people appointed to give judgement, especially on official decisions

turnover

the total value of sales in a business during a certain time

departure

a vehicle which is leaving OR leaving his job

council

a group of people formed in order to advise etc

free

costing nothing OR not under control

volume

the amount of space occupied by something, expressed in cubic measurement

redundancy

 no longer employed because there is no longer any job for them where they used to work

short term

lasting only a short time

potential

possible; that may develop into the thing mentioned

prospects

the possibility of being successful, especially at work:

points

a small round dot or mark (.)

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