voc_u5_rev Flashcards

(34 cards)

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A problem that delays a process.

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Bottleneck

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Saying or doing something as a reaction to something or someone, especially in a quick or positive way.

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Responsive

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3
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The basic rights that is generally considered every person should have, such as justice and freedom to say what you think.

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Human rights

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The use of children to do work that should be done by adults.

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Child labor

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A person who owns shares in a company and therefore gets part of the company’s profits and the right to vote on how the company is controlled.

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Shareholder

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The opinion that people in general have about someone or something or how much respect or admiration someone or something receives, based on past behavior or character.

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Reputation

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Coming from the outside.

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External

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8
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Coming from the inside.

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Internal

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Dealing with or treating the whole of something or someone and not just a part.

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Holistic

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The people living in one particular area or people who are considered as a unit because of their common interests, social group or nationality.

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Community

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Level of quality for the work you need to do/working conditions.

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Labor standards

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The activity or business of giving expert advice about a particular subject.

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Consulting

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The right of publicity, it is the right of an individual to control the commercial use of one’s identity, such as name, image, likeness or other unequivocal identifiers.

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Personality rights

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To change the numbers dishonestly in the accounts (= financial records) of an organization, especially in order to steal money from it.

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Cook the books

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15
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Ways of illegally paying less tax than you should.

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Tax evasion

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A set of rules that members of an organization or people with a particular job or position must follow.

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Code of conduct

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Constantly checking and assessing systems to ensure they comply with industry and security standards, as well as corporate and regulatory policies and requirements.

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Compliance management

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When a product or service fully meets the specifications or standard set by a company or organization.

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A short written description of the aims of a business or public organization.

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Mission statement

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The process by which an organization buys the products or services it needs from other organizations

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Something that is bought by a company, such as another company, a building or a piece of land.

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Countries that are becoming globally significant – mostly because they have moved from agricultural production to manufacturing. It all depends on social, economic and political indicators.

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Emerging countries E.g. China

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Strong demand for a product/service that has not had the opportunity of being expressed as sales.

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A company that provides mobile phone services to people so they can make calls, send messages, etc.

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An occasion when a product or service is gradually made available to more people after it has first been tested in a particular area.
A rollout
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To start to have a direct and noticeable effect on something.
To make inroads
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A very large business organization consisting of several companies.
Conglomerate
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A telecommunications technology that provides high-speed Internet access using multiple channels of simultaneous digital signals.
Broadband
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An organization whose most important goal is something that does not involve making a profit.
Nonprofit
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Relating to planets.
Planetary
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The quality of including many different types of people treating them all fairly and equally.
Inclusiveness
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Work that is performed involuntarily and under threat of some kind of penalty.
Forced labor
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The process of getting rid of large amounts of rubbish by burying it or a place where rubbish is buried.
Landfill
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To restore a device or piece of hardware to an ‘as new’ condition for resale.
To refurbish