Business English Vocabulary (with PDF)

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Targets

“Our target is to double our sales” means your objective, goal or aim.

Taskforce

“Linda put together a taskforce to solve the problem”, means she created a group of people that are to deal with something.

Tasks

A task is a piece of work that someone needs to do.

Team player

“Derek isn’t a team player, he never shares information.” That means Derek doesn’t work well as a member of the group.

Terms

You can be on good terms with someone (in English this means to get along, to have a friendly relationship with someone at work), and it can also be related to an agreement.

I.e. “The terms in the contract stops them for acting”.

The elephant in the room

When there’s an elephant in the room you have an important problem that everyone knows about… yet no one mentions it.

Think outside the box

To look at your business and come up with new ideas of doing something, or doing something in a different way.

Touch base

“Let’s touch base tomorrow” means to talk with someone tomorrow. Usually for just a short while.

Trademark

A special symbol, design, word etc used to represent a product, brand or company. A registered TM (trademark) can’t be used by other companies.

Twist someone’s arm

When you persuade, or talk someone into doing something they don’t really want to do. “If you twist my arm I’ll come to the business meeting. And I’ll even speak English!”