Matura 6 Flashcards
People who have a wide scope of abilities and experience; with many different skills
flexible workforce
A body of experts providing advice on specific problems
thinktank
Sb who travels to and from work everyday
Commuter
Hierarchy in the company
The corporate ladder
The strongest company gets the biggest share of the market
Pecking order
A person who works from home
Tele- worker
To use specific skills and abilities to solve a particular problem
To be deployed
A person who helps you to choose your future job in highschool
career adviser
Certain number of hours you spend at work; zmiana
shift at work
A stressful job where your employer demands a lot from you
High- pressure job
Dziobac
To peck
To start taking part in a course
To enroll on a course
Seniors; people who will graduate or have just graduated school
School leavers
To work as a volunteer for free
Charity work
Amount of work to do
Workload (heavy/ little/ small)
You are forced to work for free
Social work
To change your job, to start to do sth diefferent than before
A career switch
To work for yourself f.ex. when you are an owner of a company or is a freelancer
Self- employment
Big company, corporation
Enterprise
Remove from the centre of activity or attention; place in a less influential position
To be sidelined
To start being legally binding; successfully complete a process of legislation
To come into force (about a bill)
A process of hiring people
Recruitment
Join
To be eligible for
To have right to
To be entitled to
Open to discussion
Negotiable
To wear smart clothes
Smartly dressed
A day on which you usually work
Working day
Begin
Commence
To get paid for extra work
Overtime payment
A paper written by a doctor
Doctor’s notice/ note / certificate
Zerwany
To be termined
In advance
X month’s notice
Pracowac po godzinach
To work overtime
Very hard work
Sheer hard labour
One of the best agencies
Leading agency
Mozliwosci zatrudnienia
Employment opportunities
A job you do because you feel it is your purpose in life and for which you have special skills
Vocation
Look for a new rank or status in an organization
Look for a new position
Stala, bezpieczna praca
Steady job
Zlozyc rezygnacje
Hand in sb’s resignation
Special skill or knowledge that you get from experience, traning or study
Expertise
To go on a strike
To take industrial action
Oszczedzac
To economise
To improve a business by making it more modern or simple
To streamline
A senior manager
Executive
A man who is in charge of a team or workers
Foreman
A person or a company that manufactures a product
Manufacturer
Praktykant
Trainee
A person or a company that buys and selle a particular product
Dealer
Someone who owns and manages a large and important industrial company
Industrialist
The company that sells the same goods as another company
Competitor
A person who works physically
Labourer
Salesman
Agent
To try to persuade someone to leave their job and go to work for another company
Headhunt
To run out of patience
To be at the end of one’s tether
To be dismissed
To be given the sack
To work very hard
To have one’s nose to the grindstone
To receive a cash bonus on leaving job
To be given a golden handshake
To give sb a job
To take on a new worker
To be always busy
To be on the go all day
Not to be promoted
To be overlooked
To become successful
To make good
Not to have a chance to become complacent (spelnic sie)
To keep sb on one’s toes
To manage to find a lot of money for sth
Dig deep in your pocket
A way of beahving that does not honestly express your real feelings
Pretence
The use of tricks to get what you want
Trickery
Dishonest behaviour to trick someone
Deceit
Kieszonkowe
Pocket money
Skarbonka
Money- box
Sth makes short knocking sounds as it shakes
To rattle
Completely (negative)
Downright
Czysta przyjemnosc
Sheer pleasure
Sila nabywcza
Spending power
Rush
Haste
Persuade sb to join, agree
To win sb over
Mysteriously transfer itself
Magically spirit
In one way or another
Either way
Very distant
Far- flung
Recover sth with difficulty
Claw back
Fight back against someone using their own methods
Play sb at his own game
A job with low wages and no chance of progress
Dead- end job
Extraordinary
To be outstanding
Peleryna
Cloak
Keep a certain distance; not to trust
To be wary
Avoid
Run shy of
Osoba posredniczaca
Go- between
Pochlebstwo
flattery
Bledne kolo
Vicious circle
Certain to succed
Sure- fire solution
Poczatkowe problemy
Teething problems
Very few people at work
Skeleton stuff
Lekko liczac
At a rough guess
Quick decision, without thinking
To take a snap decision
A result that you can be cartain about before it happens
Foregone conclusion
Niezapowiedziana wizyta
Flying visit (spot check)
Pracownik tygodnia
Star performer this week
Impossible
Tall order
Fair (bezstronny)
Unbiased
Nie byc bezinteresownym
To have a vested interest
Give an idea of the basis
Show sb the ropes
Miec dlugi
To be in the red
To have money in the bank
To be in the black
Start talks
Enter into negotiations
To be in a position from which one can progress upwards through the company
Get a foot on the ladder
To be / not to be connected with the job’s area
Be within/ outside one’s field
Start a new job
Take up a new post
To do all the jobs nobody else wants to do (byc popychadlem)
To be a dogsbody
To be ignored and not given the position
Pass sb over for promotion
Not to comply with what was originally agreed (niedotrzymanie warunkow umowy)
A breach of contract
To use one’s authority unfairly
Pull rank
Primitive plaster (do unieruchamiania konczyn)
Splints
Temblak
Sling
Sztaluga
Easel
Nosze
Stretcher
Penseta
Tweezers
Kroplowka
Drip
Dozylnie
IV
Probowka
Test-tube
Kolba
Flask
Dluto
Chisel
Pedzel do malowania scian
Roller
Palnik benzynowy
Bunsen burner
Trojnog (fotografia)
Tripod
Papier scierny
Sandpaper
Lakier
Varnish
Substancja wywabiajaca farbe z mebli
Paint stripper
Kit
Putty
Zakretka
Nut
Srubokret
Screwdriver
Wiertarka
Drill
Sruba
Bolt
Sredniowieczna maszyna torur
Thumbscrew
Klucz francuski
Wrench
Stapler
Zszywacz
Dziurkacz
Hole- puncher
Szpilka
Drawing pin
Zakreslacz
Highlighter
Spinacz
Paperclip
Zaleglosci
Backlog
Drobne
Petty cash
Zasilek dla bezrobotnych
Dole
Podbierac
Pilfer
Throw
toss
Make up, come up with the idea
Dream up the idea
Potknac sie
To trip over oneself
Podstawic komus noge
To trip sb
Like a palace
Palatial
Very nice
Exceedingly nice
Rozbrajajacy
Disarmingly
Poluje na wazne osoby
Hunt City scalps
City London
Skora glowy
Scalp
To hunt a deer (stop playing a game)
Stalk a deer
Duty connected with the job
To go with the territory
To research
To dig around
Story (journalist)/ possible person to employ (employer)/ trop (policja)
leads
Check
Sound out
Co- workers (higher level)
Associates
To earn
To pocket
Sekretarz
Scribe
Godne pozazdroszczenia
Enviable
Jealous of people/ envious of things
To make sth necessary
To necessitate
Extremly hard/ zaangazowany
Arduous (ardent)
Complex tricks (podstep, aby cos osiagnac)
Stints
Luksusowy hotel
Haunt
Knajpka
Joint
Sprawiaja,z e potrzebne sa bardzo skomplikowane podstepy
Necessitating arduos stints
Soczyste, owocne tropy
Juicy leads
Kupowanie domu w kilka osob i dzielenie sie czasem
Timeshare
Podwojna szyba w oknie
Double- glazing windows
To call/ text sb without knowing them
Cold calling/ writing
Tor receive calls
To field calls
Grzyb
Fungus
Successful deal
Hit
Strzal w 10
Bull’s eye
Stala stawka (it won’t change)
A flat flee (rate)
Najlepsi
The big guns
Obvious
Clear- cut
Celowac
Snip
Bez zobowiazan
No strings attached
Sadzac tylek (zajmowac pozycje, stanowisko)
Put bums on seats
Ten sie smieje kto sie smieje ostatni
The joke could well be on you
