umsebenzi in English:

It's business.

An increase in customer complaints could signal a decline in business.

Business is bad, and the outlook for next year is even worse.

If there is somebody to back me up, the business will be successful.

His company was singled out as the most successful small business in the region.

Business people exchange cards at the beginning or end of a meeting.

A successful business is built on careful financial management.

His old company gave him the shaft. But I admire the way he turned bad luck into good and did even better with his own business.

The president held himself responsible for the slump in business, and left his post.

Tom came up with various ideas on how to make his business more successful.

His customers dropped off after the new supermarket opened for business.

A business cycle is a recurring succession of periods of prosperity and periods of depression.

Now that Bush has been elected, it will be business as usual.

Shall we shoot the breeze for a while before talking business?

With the approach of Christmas, business improved somewhat.

The radio doesn't work.

Mother Teresa used the prize money for her work in India and around the world.

After tying up loose ends on the house, the carpenter gave the painter approval to begin work.

I always work alone. I'm just not a team player.

Computers are capable of doing very complicated work in a split second.

Japanese office workers work very hard.

If you want to sound like a native speaker, it'll take a lot of work.

Exhausted from a day's work, he went to bed much earlier than usual.

I was beaten up by a gang of hoodlums on the way home from work.

People who regularly work in the open air do not suffer from sleeplessness.

After a hard day's work, a man can do with a good, hot meal.

I wonder if Tom has ever considered cycling to work.

Tom brings his children with him to work once or twice a year.

The committee stayed up late last night trying to work out measures that would please everyone.

It was bad enough that he usually came to work late, but coming in drunk was the last straw, and I'm going to have to let him go.

Good job!

After the hatchet job my boss did on my proposal, I'm not sure how long I want to keep on working here.

I'm stuck in a rut in my boring job and need to do something new.

Tom gave up his teaching job to become a full-time studio musician.

Pick a job that you enjoy and working will seem easy.

You never can tell what kind of job you might find.

We're giving you more money because you did a great job.

Tom was hard up for money and said he would take any job he was offered.

The job looked quite simple, but it took me a week.

I would quit before I would do that job in this company.

Job security became a major worry.

My job will only last two years at most.

That's a job of your own choosing, isn't it?

It's still too hard to find a job. And even if you have a job, chances are you're having a tougher time paying the rising costs of everything from groceries to gas.

The year after I graduated from college, I was finally able to find a job.

Barley is our main product.

If the quality of your product meets with our customer's approval, we will place regular orders.

When we started out, we realized that if we didn't have a good product, we wouldn't succeed.

If you compare our product with others, you'll see ours is far better in quality.

Our new product development efforts must be done from the end user's viewpoint.

A product has been launched that uses the power from the USB to keep hot drinks warm.

You have our permission to include our software on condition that you send us a copy of the final product.

Gross national product is a nation's total output of goods and services as measured in monetary value.

Any industrial property rights relating to the Product Specification shall belong to ABC Inc.

He was ordered, by his superior, to write up a proposal for a new product before the day is out.

Please order this product by February 15, and we will be able to deliver it before March 15.

Consumers are becoming more suspicious of advertising claims about products that they buy.

A piece of railway in use today is therefore the product of a long series of decisions reached on many different grounds, at different times.

The work of art, I decided, was the final product of human activity, and the final justification for all the misery, the endless toil and the frustrated strivings of humanity.

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.