FHNW Professional Communications (eprco): Communication vocabulary

FHNW Professional Communications (eprco): Communication vocabulary

FHNW Professional Communications (eprco): Communication vocabulary

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This flashcard set helps university-level students learn English communication vocabulary. The vocabulary flashcards focus on business and professional expressions, such as "beat off the competition," "corner a market," and "customer loyalty program." The platform supports backward learning, allowing users to learn from the target language to the source language. These cards are ideal for students and professionals aiming to improve their fluency in business communication, making them particularly useful for intermediate to advanced learners.

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43

Students

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Language

English

Category

English

Level

University

Created / Updated

23.02.2014 / 07.07.2019

Hear on the grapevine.

If you hear news from a person who heard the news from someone else.

On the same wavelength.

If you think in the same pattern as somebody else.
If you are in agreement.

Word of mouth

When people are talking about something, then it often comes to you by word of mouth.
You hear something rather by speaking than by writing.

Customer retention

If your company has a good customer retention, the customers trust you and often buy their stuff at your company.

Tied up in a meeting.

If you are tied up in a meeting, you can't leave it now and have to be there.

Customer loyalty programm.

The goal of a customer loyalty programm is to get more customer retention. The programm is often based on giving products or services to reduced prices. Sometimes there is also some point system, which motivates customer to buy more at your company.

Devise a plan.

If you sit together and discuss the common plan and the next steps.

Ruthless

If you don't care about people, the nature or other circumstances, you're doing a ruthless business.

Coveted position

Some jobs in a company are greatly desired, everyone wants this jobs. These are coveted positions.

Take a breather.

If you are in a stressful time you can take a breather to start again after that.

Make a mad dash for

If you extremelly want something and can't control this desire anymore. You must have it as quickly as possible.
We had a mad dash around town in search of a present for Dad.

Cram

Something is fully packed with a lot of stuff.

To solicit decisions

If you go to the decision maker and please him or her to decide the way you want.

Careful forethought

If you carefully think about something that doesn't happen at the moment but will come in the (near) future.

Forthwith

Something must happen as soon as possible.

Take for granted.

Something is necessary in your view to do something.
Fairplay is taken for granted to play football.

To corner a market.

If you corner a market, you can manipulate it.

To beat off the competition.

If you don't want to compete with someone, you beat off this competition.

Head or tail of the information

You can not make sense of an information.

Wake up to lost opportunities

You realize that there were occasions you could have profited from (in every sense- emotional, financial etc.) and you didn’t take advantage of these occasions when they presented themselves

Intimate social networks

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To talk shop

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If people, who work together, talk about work when they are not at work.
To talk about business or work matters at a social event (where such talk is out of place).

On the tip of my tongue.

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You're about to say what you know but you can't excactly remember it at the moment.

Loss for words.

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If you can't say anything. Happens sometimes if you're surprised.

Talk the same language.

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You're talking to a person, who has same ideas, same tastes, etc.

Look into something.

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If you look into something, you may want to investigate.
You could also look into a box to check if you put everything outside of it.

Look after something.

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If you take care of somebody or something.

In house training.

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A training for employees is not at an education center, it is at the company itself (in house).

Talk to a brick wall.

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If you talk to a person who is not listening to you.

Cross-cultural understanding-socializing.

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If you work with people from much different cultures.

Hear from the horse's mouth.

I hear something from the person who is responsible.
I hear it from the boss.

Swamp a market - Saturate a market - flood a market.

I you heavily go in a market.

Market niche

You've found a market niche if you are successful and only have few competitors.

Sluggish market.

A slow moving market.

Bring out a product.

If you make a product public and people can buy it.

Exorbitant costs.

If something is way too expensive.

To gauge the risk.

If you analyze pros and cons of an action and its risk you are gaugeing the risk.

Volatile market

A market which often and rapidly changes.

Put you in the picture.

If you put someone in the picture, you tell them the information they need to know about something.

Talk at cross purposes.

People are talking about different things.

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To beat off the competition.

If you don't want to compete with someone, you beat off this competition.

Head or tail of the information

You can not make sense of an information.

Wake up to lost opportunities

You realize that there were occasions you could have profited from (in every sense- emotional, financial etc.) and you didn’t take advantage of these occasions when they presented themselves

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