Essential Vocabulary

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Poison pill; shark repellents; raider; rainmaker; recruitment; redundancy; remuneration; retail; overdraft; user profile

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1. action taken by the directors of a company to defend it against an unwelcome takeover

2. the loss of a job by an employee because there is no longer any work

3. companies involved in selling goods to members of the public in shops

4. customer information stored electronically, especially for online shoppers

5. money paid for services, salary or wages

6. activities using more money taken out than allowed by the account

7. a company who tries to obtain control of another company by buying a large number of its shares

8. an influential person who brings significant amounts of new business and wealthy customers to a financial or legal service organization

9. measures taken by a target company to fend off unwelcome takeover attempts

10. the process of selecting and hiring new employees for an organization

Ex.3. Fill in the spaces with an appropriate conjunction from the box.

And but so or unless provided as while

Though whereas supposing in case as if

1.… you are partly to blame, I won’t make an issue of it on this occasion.

2.We need you to take the initiative … sort the problem out yourself.

3.I’ll tell you what we could do – kill two birds with one stone: deal with Fernando … we are in Madrid.

4.Don’t – whatever you do – use that door, - there’s real emergency.

5.OK, you can take the day off tomorrow … you make up the time later in the week.

6.… no one ever mentioned it I assumed it wasn’t important.

7.The difference is, James has apologized for being out of order, … you have behaved … you haven’t done anything wrong.

8.I’d love to be able to tell you what went wrong, … I’m telling you I’ve got absolutely no idea.

9.There’s no real need for you to be at the meeting, … you might as well take the afternoon off.

10. What I’m saying is we need to get all the documentation together … the inspectors turn up.

11. You can resolve the issues between you … you can take the consequences –it’s up to you.

12. … she doesn’t agree, what should we do then?