Ensku Hefti Flashcards

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Goods

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Products (vörur)

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Firm

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A business organisation formed to make money/company (fyrirtæki)

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Business

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A company involved in the manufacturing, buying or selling of goods and services (viðskipti)

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Services

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Providing something to meet a need, like banking services, travel services and insurance services (þjónusta )

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5
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Manufacture

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To pruduce, to make (framleiða)

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Import

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To bring into the country (flytja inn)

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Export

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To sell out of the country (flytja út)

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Distribute

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To supply and deliver products (dreifa)

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To retail

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To sell goods to the public, usually through shops, stores (selja í smásölu, verslunum)

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10
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A range of

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All the products a company makes or sells (úrval)

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11
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Self-employed

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Working for yourself (með sjálfstæðan atvinnurekstur)

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Enterprise

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A business organisation which exists to make money (atvinnufyrirtæki)

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Multinational

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In many countries (fjölþjóðlegt)

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14
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Entreprenour

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Someone who has a business idea that they turn into a company (frumkvöðull

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15
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To generate

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To create (skapa)

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Shareholders

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People who have bought a part in a company (hluthafar, partner)

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Shares, stockes

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A part of a company that is owned by a shareholder (hlutabréf)

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Stock exchange

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Place where stocks are bought and sold (verbréfamarkaður (hlutabréfamarkaður??))

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19
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Corporation

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Very large company consisting of several smaller companies (samsteypa, hlutafélag)

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To expand

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To increase in size, get bigger (að stækka)

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21
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To merge

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To join several companies into one (að sameinast)

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22
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To aquire/take over

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To buy another company (að kaupa, eignast)

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Subsidiary

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A company which has been bought by a larger company (dótturfélag/fyrirtæki)

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Parent company

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Large company which has bought a smaller company/subsidiary (móðurfélag)

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Corporate

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Adjective used to describe things relating to companies like corporate companies (fyrirtækis-?)

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Commerce/trade

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Buying and selling with the intention of making a profit (viðskipti)

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27
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Commercial

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Relates to commerce (viðskipta-, og verslunar-)

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28
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Payroll

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The list of the company´s employees, those who need to be payed wages/salaries (launaskrá)

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Employees

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people who work for a company. Also known as: staff personnel, workers (starfsólk)

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30
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White collar workers

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Office workers (skrifstofufólk)

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31
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Blue collar workers

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People in dirty jobs like in a factory or industry work (verkamenn/iðnaðarmenn)

32
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Industry??

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Iðnaður

33
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Workforce

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All the people working at a company (vinnuafl)

34
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Management

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All the people who have the responibility of running the company (stjórn)

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Administration

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All the tasks that enable the company to function f.e. customer service, office duties, bookkeeping, answering the phones (rekstur)

36
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Operations

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Business activities (starfsemi)

37
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Site

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Location, place (staðsetning)

38
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Headquarters

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Main office (höfuðstöðvar)

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Bookkeeping

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The activity or occupation of keeping records of the financial affairs of a business (bókhald)

40
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Customer support

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Helping costumers with their questions and complaints (þjónusta við viðskiptavini)

41
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Switchboard

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Answering the phone (skiptiborð)

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Purchasing

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Buying supplies for the company (innkaup)

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Human Resources/personnel

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All the people working for a company (mannauður, starfsfólk)

44
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Human Resources department

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The department looking after the staff, hiring contracts, pay, firing, etc. (starfsmannasvið, mannauðssvið)

45
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Recruitment

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Hiring staff (ráðning)

46
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Trade/labor union

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Organisation that fights for worker´s right within an idustr or a company

47
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To make industrial action

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Any kind of protest activity - strikes, overtime bans - by workers like overtime bans by nurses (verkfallsaðgerðir)

48
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Hierarchy

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Pyramid-shaped diagram that shows th evarious levels of responsibility. At the bottom are the people with the least expirience and responsibilty. At the top is the CEO or Managing Director (stigveldi)

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Expirience

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If you are expirienced at something you have done it several times before and are used to do it (reynsla)

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Expertise

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Special knowledge or skill (sérþekking)

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Responsibility

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Being in control of something (ábyrgð)

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To promote

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To offer someone a higher level job with more responsibility and more pay

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Organigram

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Diagram of how the staff are organised (skipurit)

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Board of directors

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Non-executive directors:people who advise and guide the company but who are not involved in day-to-day operations e.g. a representive of the share holders, a person with a lot of business exipirience to share (stjórn fyrirtækisins)

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Chief executive (CEO)/Managing dierctor (MD)/President

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The top person in the company (forstjóri)

56
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Director (also executive)

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A senior member of the company, responsible for decision making (framkvæmdastjóri, sviðstjóri)

57
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Manager

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Someone on charge of department or a project (deildarstjóri)

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IT

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Information Technology, the department responsible for the computer systems (upplýsingatækni, tölvudeild)

59
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Marketing

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Planning a campaign that will advertise a product and atttract the right consumers (markapssetning)

60
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Accounts department

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Responsible for costumer accounts (reiknishald)

61
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Boardroom

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A special room where the Board of Directors meet (fundarherbergi)

62
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Budget

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A fiancial plan (fjárhagsáætlun)

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Retierment

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To stop working at the end of your working life, usually at 67 yo in Iceland (fara á eftirlaun)

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Career ladder

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A path of promotion up through the various levels of a company´s hierarchy (virðingarröð starfa)

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Promotion

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To move up the career ladder (stöðuhækkun)

66
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Senior

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Older with more expirience and responsibility

67
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To resign/to hand in your notice

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To give up your work (usually because you want to work for someone else) (segja upp)

68
Q

To downsize

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To make a company smaller (usually by getting rid of employees and levels of management) (minnka/fækka starfsfólki)

69
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To restructure

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To organise the company differently

70
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Efficiency

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Getting good effort and results from staff for the minimum time and money (skilvirkni)

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Profits

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Money left over after all the bills have been payed (hagnaður)

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Outsorced

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Bought service from outside the company, like cleaning service (aðkeypt þjónusta)

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In-house

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Inside the company (innanhúss)

74
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Freelancers

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People who accept contracts for short-term projects, they are never on the company´s payroll (verktaki)

75
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Flexibility

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The opportunity to change or to do things differently