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Business English Vocabulary
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Language - English
Intermediate
01/20/2021

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Term
Bribe / Bribery
Definition
Bribery refers to the offering, giving, soliciting, or receiving of any item of value as a means of influencing the actions of an individual holding a public or legal duty. ... Solicitation of a bribe also constitutes a crime and is completed regardless of whether the solicitation results in the receipt of a valuable gift. 
Term
Advantage
Definition
The definition of advantage means anything that provides a more favorable position, greater opportunity or a favorable outcome.
Term
Issue
Definition
An issue is much softer than a problem and has a readily recognizable solution. Mostly an issue bears only a slight impact, and causes personal annoyance. A problem is life altering, temporarily or permanently. They can cause others to be affected.
Term
responsibility
Definition

the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.

An instance of being responsible.

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Survive
Definition
To remain alive or in the existence or to continue to function or prosper.
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Commitment
Definition

Making a commitment involves dedicating yourself to something, like a person or a cause.

 

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Certain
Definition

Certain definition, free from doubt or reservation; confident; sure

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Contribute
Definition

When you make a contribution, it means you're giving something away — whether it's your money, your possessions, or your time. A contribution can take many forms.

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Accountable
Definition

Accountability in the workplace means that all employees are responsible for their actions, behaviors, performance, and decisions. It's also linked to an increase in commitment to work and employee morale, which leads to higher performance.

 

Term
Tend to
Definition

Tend to do something meaning, definition, what is tend to do something: if something tends to happen, it happens

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Defining
Definition

If we define something, we show, describe, or state clearly what it is and what its limits are, or what it is like.

We identify the essential qualities of something. 

 

 

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Dilemma
Definition

dilemma is a difficult situation in which you have to choose between two or more alternatives.

Term
Facilitation payment
Definition
A payment or consideration is given to a government official or employee in order to get them to do what they should have done
Term
Authoritative
Definition
The definition of authoritative is someone or something having power, influence, or the right to control and make decisions. 
Term
Sleaze
Definition
You use sleaze to describe activities that you consider immoral, dishonest, or not respectable, especially in politics, business, journalism, or entertainment. 
Term
Plug
Definition

To bring a business project, plan, etc. to an end, especially by taking away financial support

Term
Loophole
Definition
loophole in the law is a small mistake that allows people to do something that would otherwise be illegal
Term
Kickback
Definition

An amount of money that is secretly and illegally paid to someone in exchange for their help:

Term
Impoverished
Definition
Reduced to poverty. Impoverished describes being poor, either from having no money or being in bad health, strength, vitality, creativeness, etc.
Term
Divert
Definition
To divert something or someone is also to cause the thing or person to be used for a different purpose.
Term
Overtaken
Definition
To catch up with or to catch up with and pass or to come upon suddenly of something. 
Term
Although
Definition

A definition example: They are good friends, although they don't see each other very often. Although and though meaning 'but'.

Term
Strict legal
Definition

Attaching closely to specified rules, ordinances, etc.

Term
Adhering /Adhere
Definition

To hold fast or stick by or attaching to something.

To give support or maintain loyalty and adhere to business values or rules. 

 

Term
Regarding
Definition

You can use the word regarding for indicating the subject that is being talked or written about

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Improve
Definition
make or become better.
Term
Contention
Definition
A statement or the point that one argues for as true or valid. In other words, the definition of the contention is a struggle, dispute, or something that someone argues.
Term
Current
Definition
: Belonging to the present time or happening or being used or done now.
Term
Purpose
Definition
The reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists
Term
Initially
Definition

: At the beginning or at first. For example,

“ The reason I initially came here was to enjoy my holiday
but I found my work”

Term
Awareness
Definition
Is the state of being conscious of something. More specifically, is the ability to directly know and perceive, to feel, or to be.
Term
Increase
Definition
To increase means to make greater, as in quantity, extent, degree, for example, to increase someone's salary.
Term
Decrease
Definition
To grow progressively less (as in size, amount, number, or intensity).
Term
To agree
Definition

Have the same opinion about something

Term
Agreement
Definition
The act of agreeing or of coming to a mutual arrangement. the state of being in accord. an arrangement that is accepted by all parties to a transaction.
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