Matura 6 Flashcards

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People who have a wide scope of abilities and experience; with many different skills

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flexible workforce

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A body of experts providing advice on specific problems

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thinktank

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2
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Sb who travels to and from work everyday

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Commuter

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3
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Hierarchy in the company

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The corporate ladder

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4
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The strongest company gets the biggest share of the market

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Pecking order

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5
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A person who works from home

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Tele- worker

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6
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To use specific skills and abilities to solve a particular problem

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To be deployed

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7
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A person who helps you to choose your future job in highschool

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career adviser

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Certain number of hours you spend at work; zmiana

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shift at work

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9
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A stressful job where your employer demands a lot from you

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High- pressure job

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10
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Dziobac

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To peck

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To start taking part in a course

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To enroll on a course

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Seniors; people who will graduate or have just graduated school

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School leavers

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13
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To work as a volunteer for free

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Charity work

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14
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Amount of work to do

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Workload (heavy/ little/ small)

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15
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You are forced to work for free

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Social work

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16
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To change your job, to start to do sth diefferent than before

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A career switch

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17
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To work for yourself f.ex. when you are an owner of a company or is a freelancer

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Self- employment

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18
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Big company, corporation

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Enterprise

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19
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Remove from the centre of activity or attention; place in a less influential position

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To be sidelined

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To start being legally binding; successfully complete a process of legislation

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To come into force (about a bill)

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21
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A process of hiring people

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Recruitment

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22
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Join

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To be eligible for

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23
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To have right to

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To be entitled to

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Open to discussion
Negotiable
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To wear smart clothes
Smartly dressed
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A day on which you usually work
Working day
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Begin
Commence
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To get paid for extra work
Overtime payment
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A paper written by a doctor
Doctor's notice/ note / certificate
30
Zerwany
To be termined
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In advance
X month's notice
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Pracowac po godzinach
To work overtime
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Very hard work
Sheer hard labour
34
One of the best agencies
Leading agency
35
Mozliwosci zatrudnienia
Employment opportunities
36
A job you do because you feel it is your purpose in life and for which you have special skills
Vocation
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Look for a new rank or status in an organization
Look for a new position
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Stala, bezpieczna praca
Steady job
39
Zlozyc rezygnacje
Hand in sb's resignation
40
Special skill or knowledge that you get from experience, traning or study
Expertise
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To go on a strike
To take industrial action
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Oszczedzac
To economise
43
To improve a business by making it more modern or simple
To streamline
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A senior manager
Executive
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A man who is in charge of a team or workers
Foreman
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A person or a company that manufactures a product
Manufacturer
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Praktykant
Trainee
48
A person or a company that buys and selle a particular product
Dealer
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Someone who owns and manages a large and important industrial company
Industrialist
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The company that sells the same goods as another company
Competitor
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A person who works physically
Labourer
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Salesman
Agent
53
To try to persuade someone to leave their job and go to work for another company
Headhunt
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To run out of patience
To be at the end of one's tether
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To be dismissed
To be given the sack
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To work very hard
To have one's nose to the grindstone
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To receive a cash bonus on leaving job
To be given a golden handshake
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To give sb a job
To take on a new worker
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To be always busy
To be on the go all day
60
Not to be promoted
To be overlooked
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To become successful
To make good
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Not to have a chance to become complacent (spelnic sie)
To keep sb on one's toes
63
To manage to find a lot of money for sth
Dig deep in your pocket
64
A way of beahving that does not honestly express your real feelings
Pretence
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The use of tricks to get what you want
Trickery
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Dishonest behaviour to trick someone
Deceit
67
Kieszonkowe
Pocket money
68
Skarbonka
Money- box
69
Sth makes short knocking sounds as it shakes
To rattle
70
Completely (negative)
Downright
71
Czysta przyjemnosc
Sheer pleasure
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Sila nabywcza
Spending power
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Rush
Haste
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Persuade sb to join, agree
To win sb over
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Mysteriously transfer itself
Magically spirit
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In one way or another
Either way
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Very distant
Far- flung
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Recover sth with difficulty
Claw back
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Fight back against someone using their own methods
Play sb at his own game
80
A job with low wages and no chance of progress
Dead- end job
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Extraordinary
To be outstanding
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Peleryna
Cloak
83
Keep a certain distance; not to trust
To be wary
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Avoid
Run shy of
85
Osoba posredniczaca
Go- between
86
Pochlebstwo
flattery
87
Bledne kolo
Vicious circle
88
Certain to succed
Sure- fire solution
89
Poczatkowe problemy
Teething problems
90
Very few people at work
Skeleton stuff
91
Lekko liczac
At a rough guess
92
Quick decision, without thinking
To take a snap decision
93
A result that you can be cartain about before it happens
Foregone conclusion
94
Niezapowiedziana wizyta
Flying visit (spot check)
95
Pracownik tygodnia
Star performer this week
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Impossible
Tall order
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Fair (bezstronny)
Unbiased
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Nie byc bezinteresownym
To have a vested interest
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Give an idea of the basis
Show sb the ropes
100
Miec dlugi
To be in the red
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To have money in the bank
To be in the black
102
Start talks
Enter into negotiations
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To be in a position from which one can progress upwards through the company
Get a foot on the ladder
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To be / not to be connected with the job's area
Be within/ outside one's field
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Start a new job
Take up a new post
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To do all the jobs nobody else wants to do (byc popychadlem)
To be a dogsbody
107
To be ignored and not given the position
Pass sb over for promotion
108
Not to comply with what was originally agreed (niedotrzymanie warunkow umowy)
A breach of contract
109
To use one's authority unfairly
Pull rank
110
Primitive plaster (do unieruchamiania konczyn)
Splints
111
Temblak
Sling
112
Sztaluga
Easel
113
Nosze
Stretcher
114
Penseta
Tweezers
115
Kroplowka
Drip
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Dozylnie
IV
117
Probowka
Test-tube
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Kolba
Flask
119
Dluto
Chisel
120
Pedzel do malowania scian
Roller
121
Palnik benzynowy
Bunsen burner
122
Trojnog (fotografia)
Tripod
123
Papier scierny
Sandpaper
124
Lakier
Varnish
125
Substancja wywabiajaca farbe z mebli
Paint stripper
126
Kit
Putty
127
Zakretka
Nut
128
Srubokret
Screwdriver
129
Wiertarka
Drill
130
Sruba
Bolt
131
Sredniowieczna maszyna torur
Thumbscrew
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Klucz francuski
Wrench
133
Stapler
Zszywacz
134
Dziurkacz
Hole- puncher
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Szpilka
Drawing pin
136
Zakreslacz
Highlighter
137
Spinacz
Paperclip
138
Zaleglosci
Backlog
139
Drobne
Petty cash
140
Zasilek dla bezrobotnych
Dole
141
Podbierac
Pilfer
142
Throw
toss
143
Make up, come up with the idea
Dream up the idea
144
Potknac sie
To trip over oneself
145
Podstawic komus noge
To trip sb
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Like a palace
Palatial
147
Very nice
Exceedingly nice
148
Rozbrajajacy
Disarmingly
149
Poluje na wazne osoby
Hunt City scalps | City London
150
Skora glowy
Scalp
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To hunt a deer (stop playing a game)
Stalk a deer
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Duty connected with the job
To go with the territory
153
To research
To dig around
154
Story (journalist)/ possible person to employ (employer)/ trop (policja)
leads
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Check
Sound out
156
Co- workers (higher level)
Associates
157
To earn
To pocket
158
Sekretarz
Scribe
159
Godne pozazdroszczenia
Enviable | Jealous of people/ envious of things
160
To make sth necessary
To necessitate
161
Extremly hard/ zaangazowany
Arduous (ardent)
162
Complex tricks (podstep, aby cos osiagnac)
Stints
163
Luksusowy hotel
Haunt
164
Knajpka
Joint
165
Sprawiaja,z e potrzebne sa bardzo skomplikowane podstepy
Necessitating arduos stints
166
Soczyste, owocne tropy
Juicy leads
167
Kupowanie domu w kilka osob i dzielenie sie czasem
Timeshare
168
Podwojna szyba w oknie
Double- glazing windows
169
To call/ text sb without knowing them
Cold calling/ writing
170
Tor receive calls
To field calls
171
Grzyb
Fungus
172
Successful deal
Hit
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Strzal w 10
Bull's eye
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Stala stawka (it won't change)
A flat flee (rate)
175
Najlepsi
The big guns
176
Obvious
Clear- cut
177
Celowac
Snip
178
Bez zobowiazan
No strings attached
179
Sadzac tylek (zajmowac pozycje, stanowisko)
Put bums on seats
180
Ten sie smieje kto sie smieje ostatni
The joke could well be on you