assistant
/əˈsɪstənt/
nouna person whose job is to help customers in a shop
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1. Flight assistant mentioned pressurizing.
2. Teacher assistants have a high rate of illnesses and injuries.
3. Occupational therapy assistants need an associate's degree from an accredited program, and, in most states, a license.
4. At the end of the trick, the assistant puts the mirror back in place.
5. Leaders have assistants.
credit
/ˈkɹɛdət/, /ˈkɹɛdɪt/
nounthe ability to buy something from a shop or receive money from a bank based on trust, without paying for it immediately
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1. Open an incognito window if you don't want to give them credit and do your transaction that way.
2. Many people deserve credit for this achievement.
3. Credit disappeared.
4. Again, the press deserves credit for this.
5. Experts credit the high content of vitamins A, B, C, and proteolytic enzymes in papaya for its wonderful effects on the skin.
sale
/ˈseɪɫ/
nounan occasion when a shop or business sells its goods at reduced prices
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1. The team must also decide if the focus will be on domestic sales or if the baby food will be exported to foreign countries.
2. That's a second consecutive month that sales have topped a billion dollars.
3. If the company focuses more on recruiting tactics than sales, it may be a pyramid scheme.
4. Sales tripled.
5. Sales took off.
cheque
/ˈtʃɛk/
nouna piece of printed paper that one writes an amount of money on it and signs, used as a way of payment instead of cash
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1. 'I see your cheque book on the table, sir.
2. Look, here is my cheque for twelve thousand pounds.'
3. The cheque is in the mail.
4. I'll take a rain cheque in hanging out, here.
5. But over time, the factory is accumulating the cheques of its customers.
to afford
/əˈfɔɹd/
verbto be able to pay the cost of something
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1. While some wealthy homeowners can afford private firefighting crews, the vast majority of firefighters work for the government.
2. So can the poorest people in the world afford those devices?
3. Dreams afford a separation of soul and body.
4. Meanwhile, fewer people could afford a ride.
5. This property still affords you, however, tremendous development opportunity.
department store
/dɪpˈɑːɹtmənt stˈoːɹ/
nouna large store, divided into several parts, each selling different types of goods
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1. Two large department stores at either end, connected by smaller shops in between.
2. Department stores overall have become less relevant over the years.
3. Last month, that enemy was Swedish department store H&M.
4. These department stores still exist.
5. Department stores are full of black suits.
discount
/ˈdɪskaʊnt/, /dɪˈskaʊnt/
nounthe amount of money that is reduced from the usual price of something
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1. I discounted the value of quality.
2. So markets are discounting mechanisms.
3. - Pilots get discounts at a lot of places.
4. Join us and exclusive content and course discounts.
5. A does discount the future.
mall
/ˈmɔɫ/
nouna large building or enclosed area, where many stores are placed
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1. Thousands of people stand in The Mall to see the Queen and the soldiers go past.
2. The rise of big box stores like Walmart, discount retailers like HomeGoods, and the transition to e-commerce weighed on malls too.
3. Mall cops have guns in 1994. -
4. They loved their mall.
5. Every mall needs a play structure in it.
order
/ˈɔɹdɝ/
nouna request made by a customer for products or goods to be made or supplied
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1. This is partly because of the stay-at-home order that was issued by the governor about two days ago.
2. In an airplane, the crew keeps order.
3. So, order three copies.
4. Just order two of 'em.
5. Then probably order a pizza.
payment
/ˈpeɪmənt/
nounthe act or process of paying or being paid money
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1. Electronic payments have cannibalized checks.
2. The migrants are not eligible for federal payments.
3. The state government had ignored payments for months.
4. So I have payment.
5. I mentioned payment.
queue
/ˈkju/
nouna line in which people or vehicles wait for a particular purpose
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1. If you haven't had a chance to watch El Camino on Netflix yet, make a U-turn and queue it up.
2. Queuing up the order.
3. Queue the serious music please.
4. Queue the epic!
5. Queue the octopus at the end.
gift card
/ɡˈɪft kˈɑːɹd/
nouna small card that allows the holder to get goods and services from a store up to the cash value printed on it
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1. Suddenly, old games became gift cards for future purchases.
2. In the number nine spot of what you should not buy Black Friday, gift cards.
3. Starbucks gift card!
4. Used up gift cards.
5. The kids got gift cards for smoothies.
receipt
/ɹiˈsit/, /ɹɪˈsit/
nouna written or printed document that shows a number of goods or services which are bought or delivered are paid for
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1. Need the receipts?
2. All right, and the next word is receipt.
3. You have receipts.
4. Sort out receipts, photos, or coupons.
5. Save the receipts too!
tax
/ˈtæks/
nouna sum of money that has to be paid, based on one’s income, to the government so it can provide people with different kinds of public services
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1. Syrian refugees tax an overburdened system.
2. Tax the remittances.
3. Tax the remittances.
4. That income is taxed.
5. Only one of them could properly tax some rich people.
value
/ˈvæɫju/
nounthe worth of something in money
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1. This stands in stark contrast to the picture we get from Camus, who said that we are all the determiners of the value of our own lives.
2. People value my word and my judgment.
3. Their needs actually have value to them.
4. Your friends value your sincerity, reliability, and sharpness.
5. His fortune would now value about $30 trillion.
bargain
/ˈbɑɹɡən/, /ˈbɑɹɡɪn/
nounan item bought at a much lower price than usual
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1. This one's a bargain.
2. Credit is a bargain.
3. Bargain hunters are out there.
4. The bargain had the car.
5. - Bargains to end your back pain.
to bid
/ˈbɪd/
verbto offer a particular price for something, usually at an auction
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1. Several different airlines submitted bids.
2. Bid that vibranium.
3. The border tribe has bid two.
4. The border tribe bids two.
5. Maybe other collectors of that artist's work bid the price up.
cashier
/kæˈʃɪɹ/
nouna person in charge of paying and receiving money in a hotel, shop, bank, etc.
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1. - Just says cashier?
2. The Go store already automates cashier jobs.
3. Cashier: All right, we got a first timer!
4. The cashier looked at the card.
5. Ask the cashier not to double-bag.
checkout
/ˈtʃɛˌkaʊt/
nouna place in a supermarket where people pay for the goods they buy
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1. Also checkout the headphone jack.
2. Then checkout the Heng Long XLusive series Tiger 1!
3. Checkout this contemporary courtyard house in Singapore.
4. Offer guests checkout
5. Checkout your photos.
delivery
/dɪˈɫɪvɝi/
nounthe act or process of taking goods, letters, etc. to whomever they have been sent
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1. Deliveries for its Model Y SUV begin as soon as this March.
2. Another growth driver for Taco Bell is delivery.
3. I started deliveries.
4. Delivery is here!
5. Yeah, but we weren't delivery people.
to purchase
/ˈpɝtʃəs/
verbto get something by payment of a price
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1. Purchase prices have stabilized recently due to new policies, political unrest, and the global pandemic.
2. Purchase, draw one card from one of three Activity decks, Action, Item or Training.
3. Purchase minimally processed milk.
4. Legally purchase this gun.
5. Legally purchase this gun.
to shoplift
/ˈʃɑˌpɫɪft/
verbto steal goods from a store by secretly taking them without paying
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1. Even shoplifting.
2. - He shoplifted it.
3. - Shoplifting a 45 vinyl record.
4. You ever shoplift?
5. No! - I shoplifted at my grandma's store.
accessory
/ækˈsɛsɝi/
nounan item, such as a bag, hat, piece of jewelry, etc., that is worn or carried because it makes an outfit more beautiful or attractive
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1. Got accessories.
2. Baking accessories?
3. Install accessories like a soap dispenser.
4. I love accessories.
5. - Accessories are very important.
goods
/ˈɡʊdz/
nounitems made or produced for sale
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1. Merchants from all over the continent met to trade their goods, but there was one problem: too many currencies in circulation.
2. Goods move, too.
3. Buy Indian goods.
4. -Fine leather goods.
5. The use of newly efficient steam engines in manufacturing is creating ever cheaper goods.
to browse
/ˈbɹaʊz/
verbto casually look at different products in a store with no intention of making a purchase
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1. Did they browse the site?
2. Or, browse a list of the smallest things ever.
3. Simpson e representante Chris browse a leader, Rocco, the LA camera, Kamasutra idea.
4. Do not browse the web.
5. Normally, you browse family bookshelves for embarrassing photo albums.
boutique
/buˈtik/
nouna small store in which fashionable clothes or accessories are sold
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1. This boutique hotel is highly coveted for its whimsical views of the Eiffel Tower.
2. She opened a boutique.
3. Back in 1995, electronics boutique had to cover rent, employee salaries and inventory management.
4. A boutique describes a small fashionable business.
5. Boutique was actually a healthy practice on a relative level.
chain store
/tʃˈeɪn stˈoːɹ/
nounone of a series of stores that are all owned by the same company or person
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1. Not all chain stores are franchises.
2. There is a donut chain store called Mr. Donut in Japan.
3. I went to another chain store and same luck.
4. You can find whole sharks on ice for purchase, not just in street shops, but in big chain stores, like Walmart too.
5. Another problem is many big box grocery chains store beer at room temperature, which isn't the best storage method.
debit card
/dˈɛbɪt kˈɑːɹd/
nouna small plastic card we use to pay for what we buy with the money taken directly from our bank account
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1. A bird cannot steal your debit card information.
2. Tap on "credit or debit card."
3. I keep a debit card.
4. It's debit card.
5. He got my debit card information too.
duty-free
/dˈuːɾifɹˈiː/
adjective(of goods) able to be imported without paying tax on them
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1. Passed on March 18, 1947, the Customs-Free Airport Act made Shannon Airport the first duty-free port in the world.
2. Even though duty-free shops have a reputation for being cheaper than stores in the city, it's not always true.
3. If your flight is connecting, it might not be a good idea to buy liquids in Duty-Free at the airport of departure.
4. In some countries, airport staff can confiscate your duty-free purchases during a transfer to the next flight.
5. A cup of coffee, a magazine from the duty-free store - and a short line later, I'm finally on board the plane.
to retail
/ˈɹiˌteɪɫ/
verbto sell small quantities of goods directly to customers
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1. The Lifepack plates retail at about $2.50 per dozen.
2. We're going to keep talking to you because I think that you're the most inventive man in retail today.
3. Still, these standards permeate retail.
4. The coat retailed for $2,781.
5. $399, originally $599 suggested retail.
shopaholic
/ʃˌɑːpɐhˈɑːlɪk/
nounsomeone who spends a lot of time shopping, often buying unnecessary things
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1. And you don't have to be a shopaholic.
2. So she's an entrepreneur and a shopaholic.
3. Mary Todd Lincoln, shopaholic Abraham Lincoln's wife became one of the most controversial First Ladies in history, and was very unpopular for a variety of reasons.
4. As you could probably guess by the title, she wouldn't be playing a shopaholic with a propensity for matchmaking this time around.
5. So, yeah, so, I am a shopaholic.
