English English Dictionary

business in English:

1. in

I live in Warsaw.

Half a million children still face malnutrition in Niger.

Back in high school, I got up at 6 a.m. every morning.

Poverty does more to bring out the worst in people and conceal the best than anything else in the world.

Kissing one's spouse in public is considered acceptable behavior in some countries.

In the United States, it takes a minimum of eight years of college to become a medical doctor.

Water, in its natural state, is a fluid.

An estimated 20% of the water used by homeowners in cities is used for their grass.

What you spend time doing in your childhood affects the rest of your life.

The inland taipan, a snake found in Australia, is the most venomous snake in the world.

In North America, business operates on "the customer is always right" principle.

I'm the type who gets nervous in front of people, so I'm bad at speech making.

Please make your reservation one week in advance.

If I should be suddenly spoken to in English, I might run away.

The Democrats haven't decided on their candidates yet, but in any case they're sure to lose.

2. Trade

Terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001.

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The three organizations are the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.

Never mind that. After all up till now he's stuffed himself on huge profit selling high brand-name goods of no real worth. From now on he can just try his best at honest trade.

Soon after graduating from trade school, Ray Murphy was taken on as a machinist at the local automobile plant.

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Goods are the great travelers over the earth's surface, far more than humans, which means that hardly an inhabited spot on the globe is untouched by trade.

Despite a large surplus in merchandise trade, the current account surplus is not so big due to a deficit in invisible trade.

Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty.

A glance at Chart 2 will reveal that some of these trade cycles are very short-lived.

Parents also arrange marriages, which is a polite way of saying that they sell or trade their children.

You shouldn't trade your short commute for a nicer house a longer distance from the office.

Most of my family work in the building trade: my dad’s a carpenter, my uncle’s a painter and my cousins are both construction workers.

English word "business"(Trade) occurs in sets:

Vocab from conversation classes

3. commerce

Osaka is the center of commerce in Japan.

English is useful in commerce.

International commerce suffered as a result of political tensions.

E-commerce is a great invention.

They are promoting local commerce across the country.

Did you see? It's a new commerce in town.

Electronic commerce began to spread rapidly.

We must promote commerce with neighboring countries.

He made his fortune from commerce.

Legal changes threaten online sales in digital commerce.

The soul of commerce is upright dealing.

I'd like to understand how commerce works.

Commerce led to the development of cities.

The Commerce Department reports retail sales rose seven-tenths of 1 percent last month mainly thanks to strong auto sales.

English word "business"(commerce) occurs in sets:

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4. the work of buying or selling products or services for money

5. manager

If the plant is completed next year, a new production manager will have to be hired.

You're not managers.

If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.

We are writing to inform you that Mr Koichi Ohara has been appointed as Manager of the Technical Department in succession to Mr Taro Iida.

It was decided that the manager, as the company's representative, would go overseas on business trips once a week.

As soon as our manager got off our backs, everything started to go off without a hitch.

The obsequious waiter is usually assigned the best table because he always curries favor with his manager and superiors.

The manager dismisses someone almost once a month now, and I don't know how we can flip burgers any faster or better or with more team spirit or whatever it is that he wants.

I had words with the manager of that store, because he refused to refund my money for the TV set that wasn't operating properly.

After John became manager, he told me he would never have expected to reach such a high position.

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The boxing match was completely one-sided, one pug was so badly mauled that his manager had to throw in the sponge.

Would you please put me in touch with the General Manager of Overseas Sales of AB Software Ltd?

Your technical manager arranged a meeting for 1:00 p.m. on April 6, but how about April 7, at 10:00 a.m.?

Your success depends a lot on how your manager and other people in the office perceive you.

6. unit

The hospital restricts the number of visitors who can enter the intensive care unit.

This AC unit wastes a lot of electricity.

an anti-terrorist unit

Oy, what's up, Tanji? "I'm having trouble because there's a unit I didn't take at my last school."

Unit of resistance is ohm and its symbol is same with the capital letter Omega in Greek alphabet. It's "Ω".

There was nothing wrong with their ability, it was just that the expense for each unit was so vast that the cost performance was bad.

Seeing as the curvature is smaller than unity, once the curve leaves the unit circle it will not come back.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Engels died of heatstroke after deserting his unit and getting lost.

The company plans to close its U.S. sales unit in New York.

Yesterday we started with the first unit in the English book.

The problem is due to the fact that our overseas vendor uses a different unit of measurement.

My office is not a part of a bigger company, it is a separate unit. (Moje biuro nie jest częścią większej firmy, to oddzielna jednostka

Human behaviour and health research unit

Fahrenheit is a German inventor who invented the thermometer. At the same time, his name is given to a unit of temperature.

7. core

I don't eat the apple core.

He seems like a softy on the surface, but at the core he's got an iron will that makes him an extremely tough negotiator.

Remove the cap from the ink refill bottle, fill the dropper with ink, and drip an appropriate amount onto the marker's core.

Better health care was at the core of the senator's campaign

What Jansky had observed was the 14.6m wavelength radio wave from the Milky Way's core.

The company has rapidly branched out from its previous core business in recent years.

That is the second core element of reinforced economic governance.

What core competencies does the job involve?

apple core

The core is an essential part of the diaper.

The Earth has an outer silicate solid crust, a highly viscous mantle, a liquid outer core and a solid inner core.

He had a talent for being able to get straight to the core of a problem.

The core is the part of the processor that performs the reading and executing of instructions.

core staff

8. the activity of buying and selling goods and services

English word "business"(the activity of buying and selling goods and services) occurs in sets:

Unit 3 - vocabulary

9. businesslike

The couple maintained a businesslike attitude toward their divorce.

businesslike approach

... matter- of- fact and businesslike— I think people would...

He spoke of sex in a rather businesslike manner, which was how he tried to avoid talking about his problems with intimacy.

Krista's curt, businesslike tone put off her clients at the maternity ward, especially on their special days.

10. do

I do the shopping.

The men had little to do except hunt for food.

Professional writers do not have a regular income.

Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

In most countries, teachers do not receive high wages.

Town criers used to tell people what they must do, according to the king's orders.

Maybe it's time to change my hair and do a makeover.

Since I have no children, I have more time to spend doing volunteer work than parents do.

Stop complaining and do as you're told.

If it's necessary to do so, I'll pay back my loan now.

The cones of the jack pine, for example, do not readily open to release their seeds until they have been subjected to great heat.

What should I do if I become depressed while studying abroad?

I'd like to get a bank loan; how do I go about that?

One thing I've always wanted to do is write a children's book.

She seems to be in trouble. Tell her what to do.

other words beginning with "B"

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