Unit 3 workbook words Flashcards
To be the explanation or cause sth
To account for
To start to exist (especially of a proble or a difficult situation)
Arise (from)
A line of workers and machines in a factory, along which product passes at each stage before it’s finished (konvejeris)
Assembly line
To say or believe that sth is the result of a particular thing
Attribute to
To cause the rate at which goods are produced (and the amount produced) to increase
Boost productivity
To cause an increase in the amount of money that you make business after paying the costs involved
Boost profits
To cause the number of items sold to increase
Boost sales
To make sth happen
Bring about
A written statement of a contract of insurance that covers all the possible risks
Comprehensive policy
To carry out an investigation of the opinions, behaviour, etc. of a particular group of people , usually by asking questions
Conduct a survey
To study closely the different areas, countries or sections of the population that might buy goods or services
Conduct a market analysis
To collect information about what people buy and why
Conduct market research
A small plastic card which stores info electronically and can contact an electronic device in order to make a payment
Contactless card
A type of bank account that you can take money out of at any time, and thath provides you with a chequebook and cash card
Current account
To go downwards or to a lower lever
Dip
An instruction to your bank to allow sb else to take an amount of money from your account on a particular date, especially to pay bills
Direct debit
To become or make sth greater, worse, more serious, etc.
Escalate
The moral ideas and attitudes that belong to a particular group or society
Ethos
To take apart in small pieces that need to be put together, e. g. furniture that is sold in pieces in a flat box and that you have to build yourself
Flat-pack
That changes frequently in size, amount, quality, etc., especially from one extreme to another
Fluctuating
To search for food
Forage (for sth)
To waste time or money on things that are not important
Fritter away
To obtain a way of entering a place or the right to use sth
To gain access
To obtain knowledge and skill through doing sth for a long period of time
Gain experience
To increase the amount that a company sells of its products or services compared with other companies selling the same thing
Gain market share
To produce or create sth
Generate
To cause sth to happen or exist (idiom)
To give rise to
Happening slowly over a long period; not sudden
Gradual
To take place, especially without being planned
Happen
An extremely important sign that sth will happen
Key indicator
To make a product available to the public for the first time
Launch a product
To start producing a series of adverts in connection with a particualar product
Launch an advertising campaign
To start an official examination of the facts about a situation, crime, etc.
Launch an investigation
To have sth as a result
Lead to
The amount of money that a person or company owes
Liability
A type of product
Line (of products/cosmetics/clothing)
To spend more money than you have (idiom)
Live beyond your means
Have the lowest level of income on which it is possible to survive (idiom)
Live on the breadline
An item that a shop/store sells at a very low price to attract customers
Loss leaders
To agree, especially in business, on a particular conditions for buying or doing sth
Make a deal
To lose money, especially in business
Make a loss
To make money in business, or by selling things, after paying the costs involved
Make a profit
To control or use information in a skilful way to find things out or to make decisions
Manipulate data
To control or influence sb/sth, often in a dishonest way so that they do not realize it
Manipulate our minds
To control or influence the opinions that people in society have in a dishonest way so that they do not realize it
Manipulate public opinion
Goods that are bought or sold; goods that are for sale in a shop/store
(Branded/counterfeit/official) merchandise
That is neither very good, large, hot, etc. nor very bad, small, cold, etc.
Moderate
A reduction in the cost of your insurance because you made no claims in the previous year
No-claim bonus
A shop/store or an organization that sells goods made by a particular company or of a particular type
(Retail/fast-food/local) outlet
To be faster than the general rise in the prices of services and goods in a particular country
Outstrip inflation
