46. business 3 Flashcards
the action of buying and selling goods and services.
The other top priority agenda in Hong Kong is the general agreement on #trade in services and non-agricultural market access.
a person or company offering something for sale, especially a trader in the street.
These are sold at market or by street #vendors, but people typically grow enough for their own consumption.
a business or organization established to provide a particular service, typically one that involves organizing transactions between two other parties.
The client was an advertising agency which bought a new #agency management software package.
give (someone) something, typically money, in recognition of loss, suffering, or injury incurred; recompense.
Do you want him to stay and is there some way to #compensate him for the suffering that he has obviously endured?
dismiss from employment.
A business acquaintance tried to #sack two employees recently: the first for incompetence, the second for tardiness.
(of a person) control the functioning of (a machine, process, or system).
A person #operating our control system could take it in stride.
act jointly; work toward the same end.
It consists of billions of Argentine ants living in millions of nests that #cooperate with each other.
a person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task.
Does a religious objection to duty amount to a belief, and does an unwillingness by a #volunteer to respond to recall amount to a manifestation of that belief?
a person who is in charge of an activity, department, or organization.
Prior to that Hayek was the #director of an institute on business cycle research.
an organization set up to provide help and raise money for those in need.
A relationship support #charity urgently needs volunteer evening receptionists to work in an East Lancashire office.
a fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker.
They seem content to let prices climb further out of reach of us mere mortals earning regular #salaries.
give work to (someone) and pay them for it.
Four wardens #employed by the agency were sacked in May after allegations of burglary.
obtain by forceful action or persuasion.
He doesn’t know that the bar owner has paid off the cops, and the bartender is a henchman who #hustled votes for the judge.
a repayment of a sum of money, typically to a dissatisfied customer.
In the sales, most retailers will offer a #refund, exchange or credit note in these circumstances, but they are not obliged to so you cannot insist.
voluntarily leave a job or other position.
He #resigned from this position when it became clear that for a serious career as a TV scriptwriter meant living in London.
