Unit 3 workbook words

Question 1

To be the explanation or cause sth

Answer 1

To account for

Question 2

To start to exist (especially of a proble or a difficult situation)

Answer 2

Arise (from)

Question 3

A line of workers and machines in a factory, along which product passes at each stage before it’s finished (konvejeris)

Answer 3

Assembly line

Question 4

To say or believe that sth is the result of a particular thing

Answer 4

Attribute to

Question 5

To cause the rate at which goods are produced (and the amount produced) to increase

Answer 5

Boost productivity

Question 6

To cause an increase in the amount of money that you make business after paying the costs involved

Answer 6

Boost profits

Question 7

To cause the number of items sold to increase

Answer 7

Boost sales

Question 8

To make sth happen

Answer 8

Bring about

Question 9

A written statement of a contract of insurance that covers all the possible risks

Answer 9

Comprehensive policy

Question 10

To carry out an investigation of the opinions, behaviour, etc. of a particular group of people , usually by asking questions

Answer 10

Conduct a survey

Question 11

To study closely the different areas, countries or sections of the population that might buy goods or services

Answer 11

Conduct a market analysis

Question 12

To collect information about what people buy and why

Answer 12

Conduct market research

Question 13

A small plastic card which stores info electronically and can contact an electronic device in order to make a payment

Answer 13

Contactless card

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Current account

Question 15

To go downwards or to a lower lever

Answer 15

Dip

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Direct debit

Question 17

To become or make sth greater, worse, more serious, etc.

Answer 17

Escalate

Question 18

The moral ideas and attitudes that belong to a particular group or society

Answer 18

Ethos

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Flat-pack

Question 20

That changes frequently in size, amount, quality, etc., especially from one extreme to another

Answer 20

Fluctuating

Question 21

To search for food

Answer 21

Forage (for sth)

Question 22

To waste time or money on things that are not important

Answer 22

Fritter away

Question 23

To obtain a way of entering a place or the right to use sth

Answer 23

To gain access

Question 24

To obtain knowledge and skill through doing sth for a long period of time

Answer 24

Gain experience

Question 25

To increase the amount that a company sells of its products or services compared with other companies selling the same thing

Answer 25

Gain market share

Question 26

To produce or create sth

Answer 26

Generate

Question 27

To cause sth to happen or exist (idiom)

Answer 27

To give rise to

Question 28

Happening slowly over a long period; not sudden

Answer 28

Gradual

Question 29

To take place, especially without being planned

Answer 29

Happen

Question 30

An extremely important sign that sth will happen

Answer 30

Key indicator

Question 31

To make a product available to the public for the first time

Answer 31

Launch a product

Question 32

To start producing a series of adverts in connection with a particualar product

Answer 32

Launch an advertising campaign

Question 33

To start an official examination of the facts about a situation, crime, etc.

Answer 33

Launch an investigation

Question 34

To have sth as a result

Answer 34

Lead to

Question 35

The amount of money that a person or company owes

Answer 35

Liability

Question 36

A type of product

Answer 36

Line (of products/cosmetics/clothing)

Question 37

To spend more money than you have (idiom)

Answer 37

Live beyond your means

Question 38

Have the lowest level of income on which it is possible to survive (idiom)

Answer 38

Live on the breadline

Question 39

An item that a shop/store sells at a very low price to attract customers

Answer 39

Loss leaders

Question 40

To agree, especially in business, on a particular conditions for buying or doing sth

Answer 40

Make a deal

Question 41

To lose money, especially in business

Answer 41

Make a loss

Question 42

To make money in business, or by selling things, after paying the costs involved

Answer 42

Make a profit

Question 43

To control or use information in a skilful way to find things out or to make decisions

Answer 43

Manipulate data

Question 44

To control or influence sb/sth, often in a dishonest way so that they do not realize it

Answer 44

Manipulate our minds

Question 45

To control or influence the opinions that people in society have in a dishonest way so that they do not realize it

Answer 45

Manipulate public opinion

Question 46

Goods that are bought or sold; goods that are for sale in a shop/store

Answer 46

(Branded/counterfeit/official) merchandise

Question 47

That is neither very good, large, hot, etc. nor very bad, small, cold, etc.

Answer 47

Moderate

Question 48

A reduction in the cost of your insurance because you made no claims in the previous year

Answer 48

No-claim bonus

Question 49

A shop/store or an organization that sells goods made by a particular company or of a particular type

Answer 49

(Retail/fast-food/local) outlet

Question 50

To be faster than the general rise in the prices of services and goods in a particular country

Answer 50

Outstrip inflation