Unit 5 Flashcards
Academic (adj)
Relating to schools, colleges and universities, or connected with studying and thinking, not with pratical skills
Commerce (n)
The activities involved in buying and selling things
Consultant (n)
Someone who advises people on a particular subject
Current (adj)
Of the present time
Demanding (adj)
Needing a lot of time, attention or energy
Duty (n)
Something that you have to do because it is part of your job, or something you feel is the right thing to do
Earnings (n)
The amount of money that someone is paid for the work they do
Gain (v)
To increase in weight, speed, height or amount
Graduate (n)
A person who has a first degree from university or college
Highly (adv)
Very, to a large degree, or at a high level
Institution (n)
A large and important organisation, such as university or bank
Inventor (n)
Someone who has invented something or whose job is to invent things
Lecturer (n)
Someone who teaches at a college or university
Management (n)
The group of people responsible for controlling and organising a company; the control and organisation of something
Manufacturing (n)
The business of producting goods in large numbers
Motivated (adj)
Wanting to do something well
Novelist (n)
A person who writes novels
Operator (n)
Someone whose job is to use and control a machine or vehicle
Overtime (adv)
(time spent working) after the usual time needed or expected in a job
Position (n)
A job
Production (n)
The process of making or growing goods to be sold
Qualify (v)
To successfully finish a training course so that you are able to do a job; to have or achive the necessary skills, etc.
Roughly (adv)
Approximately
Seminar (n)
An occasion when a teacher or expert and a group of people meet to study and discuss something
shortly (adv)
Soon
Supplier (n)
A company, person, etc. that provides things that people want or need, especially over a long period of time
Take on (pv)
To accept a particular job or responsability; to employ
Take out a loan (exp)
To borrow a sum of money, often from a bank, which has to be paid back, usually together with an extra amount of money that you have to pay as a charge for borrowing
Take over (pv)
To get control of a company by buying most of its shares
Thesis (n)
A long piece of writing on a particular subject, especially one that is done for higher college or university degree
Take up (pv)
To start doing a particular job or activity
Tutor (n)
A teacher who works with one student or a small group, either at a British college or university or in the home of a child
Unlike (prep)
Different from someone or something
