48. business 5

Question 1

a formal meeting for discussion.

Answer 1

But since I’m sure they have these discussions during #conferences , it’s a vain hope.

Question 2

having the ability, fitness, or quality necessary to do or achieve a specified thing.

Answer 2

It’s long enough and there are plenty of #capable people to take on the leadership.

Question 3

existing or occurring before in time or order.

Answer 3

They included #previous shop owners and a man whose father had scrawled his name on the arcade’s wall.

Question 4

leave one’s job and cease to work, typically upon reaching the normal age for leaving employment.

Answer 4

He #retired from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001, after teaching there for 35 years.

Question 5

having or showing great effort or energy.

Answer 5

This solicitor’s dedication and commitment to human rights and suspected miscarriages of law is #tireless.

Question 6

a business concern, especially one involving a partnership of two or more people.

Answer 6

With ratios in some accountancy #firms of one partner to 20 employees, trying to make the grade may seem like mission impossible.

Question 7

a practice or arrangement by which a company or government agency provides a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage, illness, or death in return for payment of a premium.

Answer 7

At least we have crop #insurance which is good protection against decisions that turn out bad.

Question 8

a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages.

Answer 8

Real learning begins with an #apprentice working at the elbow of a master craftsman, but there were not enough scholarly elbows to go around as the numbers swelled.

Question 9

plans or preparations for a future event.

Answer 9

A meeting will be held this evening, Tuesday, at 9pm in the Ballina Sports and Leisure Centre to make final #arrangements for this event.

Question 10

carefully choose as being the best or most suitable.

Answer 10

Panelists are carefully #selected to participate in the sensory evaluations.

Question 11

the function assumed or part played by a person or thing in a particular situation.

Answer 11

It was nice to play a leading #role in a film, be given that responsibility and to be the driving force in the movie.

Question 12

a thing that is borrowed, especially a sum of money that is expected to be paid back with interest.

Answer 12

They expect the board to refinance the bank #loans next year.

Question 13

demanding that rules concerning behavior are obeyed and observed.

Answer 13

James Sette’s mother may well have had a #strict and difficult upbringing, but at least she survived to have a life.

Question 14

producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, or other commodities.

Answer 14

Deforestation and overgrazing destroy #productive land, while acid rain damages crops.

Question 15

each of four equal or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided.

Answer 15

In the last five years the Post Office has lost a third of its Girobank transactions and a #quarter of National Savings and telephone bill payments.

Question 16

do something or have or show qualities worthy of (reward or punishment).

Answer 16

Irate shareholders wondered exactly what he had delivered to #deserve such a reward.

Question 17

a regular payment made during a person’s retirement from an investment fund to which that person or their employer has contributed during their working life.

Answer 17

When asked whether compulsory #pensions should be funded by workers or employers, people naturally agreed that their employers should pay.

Question 18

a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

Answer 18

We cheer Indian companies that hold their own against multinational #corporations.

Question 19

the release of an offender from detention, subject to a period of good behavior under supervision.

Answer 19

There would be advance from punishment to #probation and from probation to release.

Question 20

an advantage or profit gained from something.

Answer 20

It said the referee had done his best and it was easy with the #benefit of sophisticated video technology and hindsight to criticise him.

Question 21

a rule or directive made and maintained by an authority.

Answer 21

You don’t want to be bogged down with all those bureaucratic rules and #regulations?

Question 22

a person or thing that succeeds another.

Answer 22

Senior colleagues, including potential #successors if he is overthrown, endorsed that verdict.

Question 23

a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers’ income and business profits or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.

Answer 23

Clearly, lower #taxes reinforced the spending splurge that generated the explosion in indirect tax receipts allowing taxes to be cut further.