Phrasal verbs business and work

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PHRASAL VERBSBUSINESS

BACK UPTo make a copy of information on a computer (for example, files and programmes) so that you do not lose the information. E.g. How should a company backup their data?

BAIL (sb/smth) OUTTo help a person or business in difficulty (especially financial difficulties). E.g. Madrid managed to negotiate a 100 billion euro deal with Eurozone states to bail out the nation's banks.

BOOK UPWhen a person, place or event is booked up they have no spare time or space. Always passive.

E.g. This is booked up; we'll have to stay somewhere else

BRING FORWARD

• TO RESCHEDULE FOR AN EARLIER TIME OR DATE.

• Eg. Can you bring the meeting forward a week?

BRING (SOMETHING) OFF

• TO SUCCEED IN CARRYING OUT

• E.g. We need to increase our profits by 30% by August 2014. I'm sure we can bring it off!

BURN OUT

• TO LOSE EFECTIVENESS AT WORK THROUGH EXHAUSTION

E.g. He burned himself out because he worked extremely hard.

CALL SOMETHING OFF

To cancel E.g. I’m afraid, Sir. The meeting has been called off.

CASH IN ON

To make money from a situation or even, often in an unfair wayE.g. Investors cash in on MPX crisis

CASH UP

• To count all the money taken by a business or shop at the end of the working day.

• E.g. Let’s cash up and go home

CLOSE DOWN

• To cause business to cease operating

• E.g. When the vet was killed they had to close down the clinic.

COME ACROSS

To meet somebody by chance, encounterE.g. What are the most common cliches you come across in business?

COUNT ON

• To trust, rely on

E.g. You can't always count on your business partner.

CONTRACT OUT TO

• To contract out something (or contract something out) is to arrange for another company to do some work instead of your company.

• E.g. Our government has contracted out hospital cleaning services to the private sector.

CUT BACK ON

• To reduce, to economize

• E.g. Ask your insurance agent, accountant or attorney how you can cut back on their costs.

CUT IN

• To interrupt a conversation

• E.g. Please do not cut in on our conversation.

DO AWAY WITH

• To eliminate, get rid of

• E.g. We decide to do away with paychecks this week too.

DRAW UP

• To draft, plan out

• E.g. I’m drawing a more sophisticated business plan

DRUM UP

• To try and increase interest in something, or support for something.

• E.g. Our marketing team is drumming up interest in our new product.

FALL THROUGH

• To be unsuccessful, come to nothing

• E.g. You can’t let your business fall through!

FILL IN FOR SB

• To substitute

• E.g. Who’s feeling up for John Edwards at the Sales Department?

GET AHEAD

• To be successful

• E.g. Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves

HAND OUT

• To distribute

• E.g. When is it appropriate to hand out a Business Card?

KNUCKLE DOWN

• To start to work or study very hard.

• E.g. We all knuckled down and finished the work before the deadline.

LAY OFF

• To make redundant. To stop employing them because there is no more work for them to do.

• E.g. The current economic crisis has led many companies and industries to lay off some of their employees.

LOOK INTO

• To investigate

• E.g. There are a number indicators that allow us to look into the near future.

Measure up

• To be good enough; to have the necessary abilities, skills or qualities.

• E.g. I’m starting a new job at a law firm today. I hope I measure up to their expectations.

MEET UP

To meet someone, or a group of people, in order to do something together

E.g. The accountant and I are meeting up at 2pm tomorrow to check the business accounts.

NOTE DOWN

• To write it somewhere so that you don’t forget it.

• E.g. Note down Mr. Paterson’s address and phone number, please.

PENCIL IN

• To make a provisional appointment for something to happen.

• E.g. I’ll pencil our meeting in for the 5th February at 10am.

PICK UP

• To improveE.g. The sales will pick up next month

Pull out of smth

• To withdraw from an agreement, or stop taking part in an activity.

• E.g. They are threatening to pull out of the deal if you don’t sign the documents today.

PUT SMTH OFF

• To delay until later

• E.g.. For some reason you can’t put off your entrepreneurial dream any longer

REPORT BACK

• To give an account of something

• E.g. Find out as much as you can about him and report back to me.

Rip off

• To make them pay too much money for something. Informal English

• E.g. Don't buy a used car from him – he will rip you off.

SELL OFF

• To sell it at a reduced or low price because you do not want it or because you need the money

• E.g. The company will sell off some of its assets to raise cash.

Sell out

• To sell all of it and have no more left for people to buy.

• E.g. The new iPhones are selling out everywhere.

SELL UP

To sell a business completely and move onto something else or somewhere else.E.g. We sold up the company and retired to Spain

SET UP

• To establish

E.g. You can set up a private limited company to run your business.

Shop around

• When people shop around, they compare the prices and quality of an item so that they can choose the best one to buy.

• E.g. Everyone is shopping around for the best deals.

Sign up

• To agree to do something, or to take part in something, by signing one's name. To hire them to work for you.

• E.g. We signed up to take part in the company’s team-building events. We are thinking about signing up a new office manager

SMARTEN UP

• You make them / it look tidier, or more attractive, or cleaner.

• E.g. You must smarten up for your job interview.

SORT OUT

• To organize, plan

• E.g. Sorting out a business during separation from your partner may be very difficult.

STEP DOWN

• To resign

• E.g. Target CEO Peter Gonzalez has stepped down from the company he's worked at for 35 years.

STEP UP

• To do more of an activity, work harder at it, or increase the level or strength of something in order to improve a situation.

• E.g. German businesses to step up hiring and investment.

STOCK UP

• To buy a lot of something for a future use

• E.g. It will be a major storm, we better stock up on batteries, canned goods and water.

TAKE BACK

To retract E.g. The biggest business decision I wish I could take back was a conscious decision not to terminate an ineffective staff person.

TAKE OVER

• To get control of a Company. To start doing something that someone else was responsible for before you.

• E.g. Microsoft announced it is taking over Skype. Isaac is taking over the business from his father.

TALK OVER

• To discuss a problem or situation with someone.

• E.g. We’re having a meeting to talk over the poor sales figures.

TEAM UP

• To join forces

• E.g. We teamed up for the new project.

THINK OVER

• To consider, deliverate

• E.g. Let's think over his proposal before we see him again

TURN DOWN

• To decline, refuse

• E.g. I have turned down two job offers so far

USE SMTH UP

• To consume completely

• E.g. Now use up all your web storage.

WIND UP

• To bring it to a conclusion – to finish it, or prepare to finish it.

• E.g. It's nearly six o'clock so we'll wind the meeting up now.

WRITE OFF

• If you write off a sum of money you accept that you have lost it, or that it will not be repaid.

• E.g. We have written off the printing company’s debt.

WRITE UP

• You write it on paper or type it into a computer, in its finished form – usually from your notes or a rough draft.

• E.g. Please send me your report when you’ve written it up.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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