acquisition
/ˌækwəˈzɪʃən/
nounthe act of buying or obtaining something, especially something that is valuable
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1. But the acquisition breathed some life back into Chuck E. Cheese.
2. The acquisitions were very expensive.
3. Early acquisitions were resources like oil fields, property.
4. The first word today is ACQUISITION.
5. Remember acquisition?
mba
/ˈɛmˈbiˈeɪ/
nouna second university degree in business management
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1. Elon notoriously denounces MBAs.
2. But my dad is an MBA.
3. So MBAs are divided into 10 sections of about 90 apiece.
4. So my partners all had MBAs and they were finance people.
5. Some positions require a MBA.
associate
/əˈsoʊsiˌeɪt/, /əˈsoʊsiət/, /əˈsoʊʃiˌeɪt/, /əˈsoʊʃiət/
nouna member of an organization with limited membership
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1. Astronomers usually associate those conditions with the space around a black hole.
2. Other people associate money with hard work.
3. Other people associate money with love.
4. People typically associate private islands with some sort of tropical paradise.
5. People associate the color blue with safety, peacefulness, and trust.
retailer
/ˈɹiˌteɪɫɝ/
nouna store, person, or business that sells goods to the public for their own use, not for resale
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1. But sometimes retailers bring coupon codes or info about an upcoming sale directly to the deal sites.
2. Retailers can also take responsibility.
3. Retailers typically carry a 26 day inventory of products.
4. You may not put much thought into the music playing over the loudspeaker, but the retailer probably has.
5. And retailers had 10 to a hundred percent margin.
commodity
/kəˈmɑdəti/
noun(economics) a basic product or raw material that can be purchased or sold
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1. A commodity has a very special meaning for Marx.
2. They produce commodities.
3. Finally, consider commodities.
4. Time is a commodity.
5. Commodity prices are like this.
merchandise
/ˈmɝtʃənˌdaɪz/
noungoods offered for sale or the ones bought or sold
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1. - Where's the merchandise?
2. Another new offering is merchandise.
3. Fresh merchandise arrives.
4. Sell merchandise.
5. Merchandise it.
cooperative
/koʊˈɑpɝˌeɪtɪv/
nounan organization or business that is jointly owned and run by its members
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1. Under the cooperative, the family farms see 100% of the profits from Ocean Spray product sales.
2. The entire world electricity system, the US, are world electric cooperatives.
3. - Your fake kid-- - Wow, that guy was so cooperative.
4. They're cooperative.
5. Cooperative development is a way forward.
audit
/ˈɔdɪt/
nouna formal inspection of a business's financial records to see if they are correct and accurate or not
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1. The audit blames the complexity of the program, a confusing design, a lack of taxpayer awareness and inadequate oversight by the IRS.
2. The voters in Arizona and the state Senate in Arizona pursued this audit.
3. The accounts were audited by parliamentary commissioners.
4. Audit them.
5. Being audited?
deficit
/ˈdɛfəsət/
nounthe difference between the needed amount that is higher than the amount that is available, especially money
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1. Deficits are the difference between federal spending and revenue.
2. The recession caused the deficit.
3. Deficits do matter.
4. Here come your deficits.
5. Deficit means not enough.
expenditure
/ɪkˈspɛndətʃɝ/, /ɪkˈspɛndɪtʃɝ/
nounthe act of using money
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1. Aggregate planned expenditures.
2. One person's expenditure turns into another person's income.
3. Physical disabilities might affect expenditure.
4. The built environment, sedentary time, and labor saving devices might decrease expenditure.
5. Their expenditure created a virtuous economic cycle.
invoice
/ˈɪnvɔɪs/
nouna list of goods or services received and their total cost
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1. Clients often have invoices like that.
2. Sometimes clients have invoices inside of projects.
3. Invoices which were going to exist in the future.
4. Financing invoices goes back to the Middle Ages.
5. She processes invoices for a shipping company.
margin
/ˈmɑɹdʒən/
noun(business) the difference between the amount of money spent to buy or produce something and the amount of money gained from its sale
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1. So you guys have massively higher margins, returns on capital, et cetera.
2. Turnover margin became the story of their season.
3. In addition to short selling, margin enables the use of advanced options strategies.
4. And retailers had 10 to a hundred percent margin.
5. Margins are so tough.
turnover
/ˈtɝˌnoʊvɝ/
nounthe overall amount of profit made by a business or company over a specific period of time
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1. A typical index fund will have turnover of about 5%.
2. The market as a whole has turnover of about 100%, 120%, somewhere in that range.
3. Turnover is extremely expensive for companies.
4. Turnover has plummeted.
5. Radishes turnover quickly.
yield
/ˈjiɫd/
nounan amount of profit gained from an investment or business
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1. After a certain point, the added weight no longer yields additional range.
2. The high yield market is now at bubble levels.
3. Japanese companies also made major innovations in manufacturing that yielded low production costs and strong, consistent product quality.
4. Fats yield more energy per unit mass than carbohydrates.
5. Six full weeks of tireless searching would yield not a single sign of the mini-woodsman.
enterprise
/ˈɛnɝˌpɹaɪz/, /ˈɛntɝˌpɹaɪz/
nouna company or business
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1. One of those two aircraft carriers was the Enterprise.
2. "In other words, roads promote enterprise."
3. "Enterprise provides hope."
4. Democratize the enterprise.
5. Long-term relationships are, inevitably, deeply complicated enterprises.
franchise
/ˈfɹænˌtʃaɪz/
nouna permission granted to a person or group by a government or company that enables them to sell their services or products in a specific area
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1. A franchise is a legal and commercial agreement between an individual and a parent company.
2. Narrator: Franchise owners, on the other hand, took the hit.
3. 186 venues were franchises.
4. The teams are not franchises.
5. The franchise has spawned novelization, reference books, RPGs, board games, and a cook book since its untimely removal from the airwaves.
start-up
/ˈstɑɹˌtəp/
nouna business or company that has just begun operation
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1. Our goal is 1,000 start-ups a year.
2. We visited a number of start-ups.
3. They're looking for start-ups.
4. Over time, start-ups are targeting a cost of around $100 per tonne.
5. Most political start-ups will fail.
Ltd
/ˈɫɪmɪtɪd/
nounused after the name of a company to indicate that its owners are not legally responsible for all the money that the company owes but only to the amount they have invested in it
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1. Nobody has more of what it takes to get you into a new LTD or other fine car faster.
2. Join the LTD Folding team and make a difference, your PC might even wind up finding a cure for the coronavirus, which could not only safe lives but also finally put an end to all these people hoarding toilet paper.
3. And that corporation was De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd headed up by Cecil Rhodes.
venture
/ˈvɛntʃɝ/
nouna business activity that is mostly very risky
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1. Some tribes ventured westward into the domain of the Avars.
2. Any number of potential prey could venture past.
3. Any number of potential prey could venture past.
4. The puppies venture a move towards the meat.
5. Anybody venture a guess?
net
/ˈnɛt/
adjectivefinal amount after the deduction of all costs
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1. The movie also netted a 61% Rotten Tomatoes rating.
2. They have nets.
3. None of these efforts netted any improvement in John's situation.
4. Nets protect the farmed salmon from orcas and other predators.
5. Instead, this remarkable piece of merchandise netted the grand total of $3.26.
cooperative
/koʊˈɑpɝˌeɪtɪv/
adjectiveinvolving partnership of a group of people working toward a common goal
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1. Under the cooperative, the family farms see 100% of the profits from Ocean Spray product sales.
2. The entire world electricity system, the US, are world electric cooperatives.
3. - Your fake kid-- - Wow, that guy was so cooperative.
4. They're cooperative.
5. Cooperative development is a way forward.
incorporated
/ˌɪnˈkɔɹpɝˌeɪtɪd/, /ɪnˈkɔɹpɝˌeɪtɪd/
adjectivehaving become a legal business company
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1. Now, the weird category is unorganized incorporated territories of which there is one: the Palmyra Atoll.
2. So all of the ingredients really get well incorporated.
3. but it's like incorporated.
4. It doesn't look fully incorporated.
5. The incorporated side, the company, is doing things that it does really well.
managerial
/ˌmænɪˈdʒɪɹiəɫ/
adjectiverelated to managers and their work
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1. The required level of managerial skill is inversely related to the quality of the business.
2. So we have this huge managerial overlay that stayed transactional.
3. A new managerial elite was replacing the old aristocracy.
4. Today, Black professionals in the U.S. private sector make up 12% of the entry level workforce and just 7% of the managerial workforce.
5. And labor statistics: women take up most managerial jobs.
profitable
/ˈpɹɑfətəbəɫ/
adjective(of a business) making or yielding profit
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1. The mega-mall was immensely profitable.
2. Be profitable.
3. Be profitable.
4. Carmakers are profitable again.
5. The bank was profitable.
to administer
/ədˈmɪnəstɝ/
verbto be responsible for a company, organization, etc. and manage its affairs, including financial matters
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1. So far, the nation has administered 26 million doses.
2. And then the executioner administered two more shocks.
3. All right, administer that shot.
4. Sometimes, awful people inadvertently administer their own karma.
5. Administer an antihistamine and pain reliever.
to close
/ˈkɫoʊs/, /ˈkɫoʊz/
verbto finalize a business deal
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1. This involves a doctor examining the cervix through a microscope, and possibly taking a small biopsy of tissue for closer examination.
2. He sulked for a week and then closed his detective agency.
3. - Singing with her mouth closed.
4. Close the door!
5. Close the d-
to endorse
/ɛnˈdɔɹs/
verbto publicly state that one supports or approves someone or something
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1. In the year 2000, only about 4 percent of white Americans endorsed reparations.
2. A host of 19th-century celebrities endorsed wigs, face creams, powders, pianos, and bottled water.
3. Endorse this menstrual cup.
4. And tip number five, endorse other people.
5. Our participants endorse this idea.
to merge
/ˈmɝdʒ/
verbto join together or make things do so
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1. Your sense of action or awareness merge together.
2. Merge menu items.
3. - Two bubbles merge!
4. Merge the two companies.
5. Merge the two companies.
to publicize
/ˈpəbɫɪˌsaɪz/
verbto draw public's attention to something by giving information about it as an act of advertisement
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1. I don’t publicize my votes, actually.
2. It was well publicized.
3. Jaime Luis Silva Ponce publicizes the health problems caused by elevated lead levels in childrens’ blood.
4. Instead, they publicized your side.
5. Miranda Lambert Miranda Lambert's weight loss was highly publicized.
to take over
/tˈeɪk ˈoʊvɚ/
verbto take control of a company or business, particularly by buying more shares
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1. About six billion years ago, dark energy took over.
2. The US military had taken over the island of Kaho‘olawe.
3. the energy takes over.
4. For Stevens, poetry takes over another dimension of religious experience.
5. The microcosmos has also taken over our bodies.
patent
/ˈpætənt/
nouna formal document that gives someone the right to be the only one who makes, uses, or sells an invention or product for a limited amount of time
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1. When a new drug comes to market, the FDA gives the drug company exclusive rights to produce and market the drug until their patent runs out.
2. Basically, patents are limiting the supply of these incredibly vital COVID-19 vaccines.
3. Drugs have patents.
4. - Patented our humor?
5. One U.S. inventor patented a flush toilet for dogs.
pr
/ˈpiˈɑɹ/
nounthe work of creating a good image of a person, product, or company among people
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1. At the same time, you want PR help.
2. Most PR specialists need a bachelor’s degree.
3. The second syllable is pr', pr'.
4. This one is from PR, the initials PR.
5. This is PR.
shipping
/ˈʃɪpɪŋ/
nounthe act of transporting goods, particularly by sea
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1. Between flight and commercial, shipping constitutes about 5 percent of our total CO2 emissions per year.
2. Shipping is an incredibly price-sensitive business.
3. Shipping is a very old technology.
4. Shipping took about 10 days in our tests.
5. You always charge shipping.
warehouse
/ˈwɛɹˌhaʊs/
nouna large place in which raw materials or produced goods are stored before they are sold or distributed
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1. Overall, warehouses with robots actually had higher injury rates.
2. So those people warehouse that data for two to three years.
3. Their warehouses are zero waste.
4. The warehouse sends the product to the customer.
5. The warehouse has several different functions.
operational
/ˌɑpɝˈeɪʃənəɫ/
adjectiverelated to the way in which a business, organization, machine, etc. functions
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1. Our models are operational all over the world.
2. Operational cost is a sum of our rent, HR team, office expenses, and a fraction of my salary.
3. The machines were operational.
4. Even operational conduits are under threat.
5. The car is no longer operational.
