architect
/ˈɑɹkəˌtɛkt/
nouna person whose job is designing buildings and typically supervising their construction
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1. Architects place plumbing and telephones.
2. 'Architect'.
3. Architects are big dreamers.
4. Today's word is architect.
5. The word architect is a noun.
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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.
boss
/ˈbɑs/, /ˈbɔs/
nouna person who is in charge of a large organization or has an important position there
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1. - Boss is in the eye of the beholder.
2. Boss, this toy is so much fun.
3. Bosses have to make many important decisions.
4. Bosses must only take informed risks.
5. Bosses love that stuff.
businessperson
/ˈbɪznəˈspɝsən/
nounsomeone who works in business, especially at a high level
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1. You're an amazing businessperson.
2. Well, that's a businessperson.
3. He’s not a boring businessperson.
4. Of course, a hard-as-nails businessperson might offer more resistance, but for a lot of people, this simple trick will work wonders.
5. I'm not a businessperson.
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1. In 1931, German chemists developed an effective anti-malaria drug, mepacrine.
2. But by this time, chemists wanted a more scientific society.
3. Most chemists use databases, scientific software, graphics, and design and photo imaging tools in their work.
4. Her chemists conducted resources for the chemical warfare service.
5. But chemists are clever.
detective
/dɪˈtɛktɪv/
nouna person, especially a police officer, whose job is to investigate and solve crimes and catch criminals
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1. Literary detectives have uncovered many facts about William Shakespeare.
2. "She pays," detective.
3. A pizza pockets detective for every season, 3.
4. He sulked for a week and then closed his detective agency.
5. So at this point, detectives are back to square one.
to employ
/ɛmˈpɫɔɪ/, /ɪmˈpɫɔɪ/
verbto give work to someone and pay them
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1. Psalm 29 also employs the language of a storm god.
2. Agriculture in itself employs about 70% of the entire population.
3. People employ people.
4. These exercises employ two different types of muscle fibres.
5. Scripps employs a pretty standard confidentiality agreement as part of their casting contract.
engineer
/ˈɛndʒəˈnɪɹ/
nouna person who designs, fixes, or builds roads, machines, bridges, etc.
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1. Engineers thought so, too.
2. Engineers also tried.
3. My self engineered safe space, for women.
4. American policies engineered our segregated homes.
5. Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
instructor
/ˌɪnˈstɹəktɝ/
nouna person who teaches a practical skill or sport to someone; someone whose occupation is teaching
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1. Instructor: Get off that bus!
2. Instructor: Sound off!
3. Instructor: Answer your voice!
4. Instructor: Look over here.
5. Instructors often enter the field with experience in fitness classes, dance, or other sports disciplines.
director
/daɪˈɹɛktɝ/, /dɝˈɛktɝ/, /diˈɹɛktɝ/, /dɪˈɹɛktɝ/
nouna person who manages or is in charge of an activity, department, or organization
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1. Movies are usually labeled as the work of the actors or director.
2. Director: Begin the test.
3. Casting directors.
4. Directors also oversee the visual aspects of website and video game development.
5. Directors make the creative decisions.
lawyer
/ˈɫɔɪɝ/, /ˈɫɔjɝ/
nouna person who practices or studies law, advises people about the law or represents them in court
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1. 70% of the countries lawyers are female.
2. Lawyers play a huge part in animal activism.
3. Lawyers have a very important role in situations like this.
4. So are lawyers.
5. In her written decisions, lawyers hear a voice of reasoned humanity.
receptionist
/ɹiˈsɛpʃənɪst/, /ɹɪˈsɛpʃənɪst/
nouna person who greets and deals with people arriving at or calling a hotel, office building, doctor's office, etc.
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1. I'm a receptionist.
2. I'm a receptionist.
3. The receptionist loved it too.
4. That poor receptionist never stood a chance.
5. The receptionist is a great person.
to train
/ˈtɹeɪn/
verbto be taught the skills for a particular job or activity through instruction and practice over time
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1. A very strict officer was talking to some new soldiers whom he had to train.
2. He is travelling to Paris on the Eurostar train.
3. Across the road, a train waited.
4. Training the abs.
5. Train, train, train some more.
adviser
/ædˈvaɪzɝ/
nounsomeone whose job is to give advice professionally on a particular subject
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1. U.S. advisers look on as the VC lineup for questioning.
2. And an adviser to a pro-Trump Super PAC, Katie Walsh, a former White House official, made a similar argument.
3. He immediately called his advisers together.
4. And my adviser gave me this problem.
5. After a while, his advisers complained.
agent
/ˈeɪdʒənt/
nouna company or person that represents another person or company or manages their affairs
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1. Agents have traits.
2. Agents have behaviors.
3. Over the next few years, agents found more massive tunnels.
4. Reducing agent.
5. Often, agents turned traitor for reasons of greed, ideology or revenge.
employment
/ɛmˈpɫɔɪmənt/, /ɪmˈpɫɔɪmənt/
nounthe fact or state of having a regular paid job
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1. Employment rises by two and a half million.
2. Employment in the marketplace went down.
3. It affects employment.
4. Employment is off 23% in roughly the same time period.
5. Find off-the-map employment.
marketing
/ˈmɑɹkətɪŋ/
nounthe act or process of selling or advertising a product or service, usually including market research
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1. Marketing is a company's plan for selling a product.
2. The company's marketing plan will be aimed at the parents, specifically the mothers.
3. It's a multilevel marketing scheme where the only money you can make is if you find new salesmen to sell with you.
4. Marketing reduces things.
5. Marketing is getting someone's attention.
president
/ˈpɹɛzəˌdɛnt/, /ˈpɹɛzɪdənt/
nounthe head of a company or corporation
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1. The title company president clearly refers to the leader of a company.
2. The president spoke to reporters outside the White House.
3. The president wrote a very generous letter.
4. Well, in a crass political sense, Judy, it's bad for the president.
5. Your president is a judo expert.
profession
/pɹəˈfɛʃən/
nouna paid job that requires a high level of education and training
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1. Explain your profession to the people.
2. And we identify professions.
3. In contrast, other professions involve much higher risk.
4. Most people will give their profession.
5. Cardi's profession also requires a good deal of travel, and meal planning.
to retire
/ˌɹiˈtaɪɝ/, /ɹiˈtaɪɹ/, /ɹɪˈtaɪɹ/
verbto leave one's job and stop working, usually on reaching a certain age
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1. My mom just retired.
2. Retire the cantons together, the white stripes together, and the red stripes together.
3. My dad retired.
4. Jetliners retire at the rate of about three per day.
5. Athletes retire.
accountant
/əˈkaʊntənt/
nounsomeone whose job is to keep or check financial accounts
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1. My mom is an accountant.
2. "My accountant handles that."
3. Some of those titles include accountants, biochemists, loggers, foresters, geologists, designers, tree planters, engineers, and marketers.
4. This accountant is passive aggressive in company conflicts.
5. "Does your accountant know?"
analyst
/ˈænəɫɪst/
nouna trained individual who is concerned with analyzing the facts and providing others with information
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1. Analysts predict record growth for EVs in 2021, especially in Europe and China.
2. None of us are analysts.
3. Each quarter, analysts publish reports about various stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds.
4. Analysts then publish their estimates.
5. Analysts expect a contraction this time around of about 0.1% on an annualised basis.
apprentice
/əˈpɹɛntəs/, /əˈpɹɛntɪs/
nounsomeone who works for a skilled person for a specific period of time to learn their skills, usually earning a low wage
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1. He mentors apprentices during the four-year program at Arion.
2. The apprentice is now exalted.
3. Usually, apprentices were migrants to the towns.
4. But just 60 were apprentices.
5. So these people, biomimics, are nature's apprentices.
archeologist
/ˌɑːɹkɪˈɑːlədʒˌɪst/
nouna person whose job is to study ancient societies using facts, objects, buildings, etc. remaining in excavation sites
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1. Archeologists found the clues not in the stonework, but in the trash.
2. What do archeologists do?
3. Archeologists have named the younger children Llullaillaco Boy and Lightning Girl.
4. Thanks to recent technological advancements, archeologists are now discovering countless remnants of ancient jungle dwelling civilizations.
5. Archeologists have found evidence of tile as early as the 13th century BC in Mesopotamia.
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1. The CEOs of Match Group and Tinder both declined to participate in this video.
2. The usual company turns over CEOs.
3. CEOs are just like other human beings.
4. CEO leaves $3,000 tip.
5. CEOs continuously develop themselves.
critic
/ˈkɹɪtɪk/
nounsomeone who gives their personal standpoint of a movie, play, etc. as a job
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1. Its critics say the group is a pyramid scheme masking as a cult.
2. But critics heard a voice for white male power.
3. But Austin's nomination has critics.
4. At the time, critics saw a more cynical motive.
5. Critics saw the withdrawal as a gift to Russia’s president.
entrepreneur
/ˌɑntɹəpɹəˈnɝ/, /ˌɑntɹəpɹəˈnʊɹ/
nouna person who starts a business, especially one who takes financial risks
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1. Basically, entrepreneurs believe in themselves.
2. Entrepreneurs did great.
3. Entrepreneurs have definitely had their lows.
4. Entrepreneurs played entrepreneur.
5. Entrepreneurs played entrepreneur.
estate agent
/ɪstˈeɪt ˈeɪdʒənt/
nouna person whose job is to help clients rent or buy properties
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1. Real Estate Agent and single dad Chris Barker was raised in Arizona.
2. In Northwest London, no one understands the desires and demands of multi-millionaires better than Hampstead estate agent Trevor Abramson.
3. Estate agents What do you think, Sam?
4. But the estate agents don’t think it spells the end to a lucrative market.
5. She also married estate agent Harry Wentworth-Stanley in an intimate ceremony in July 2020.
freelance
/ˈfɹiˌɫæns/
adjectiveearning money by working for several different companies rather than being employed by one particular organization
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1. Many freelance workers do not have the benefits that full-time work offers.
2. Many freelance workers do not have the benefits that full-time work offers.
3. They just freelance with everybody.
4. I freelance from two years.
5. My freelance job ended.
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1. This occupation displaced hundreds of thousands of azeris from their homes.
2. That occupation produced thousands of dead torture refugees.
3. Mail-related occupations typically require a high school diploma.
4. Has a clearly envious person ever put down your occupation?
5. What's your occupation?
