Business meetings

conference

meeting

negotiation

presentation

trade exhibition

trade fair

training course

video conference

Our company has formal and informal meetings.

Buying and selling

advertising brand buyer catalogue client competitor customer deal deliver/delivery

deposit discount features free guarantee half price increase profits/sales in/out of stock interest free credit

introduce (new products) launch (a product) limited period mail order model offers (place an) order payment price

product promote (a product) (special) promotion sample save (money) seller service supplier target market

Clothes

Informal jeans T-shirt casual Friday weekend clothes

Informal or Formal coat dress jacket shoes shirt skirt trousers

Formal suit tie uniform

Companies, work, people

 

Places to work department department store office company/firm factory hotel health centre restaurant reception salon shop

Types of work full time flexible hours overtime part-time permanent position shift work

Types of company branch chain corporation franchise shop store outlet mail order

Perks coffee/lunch break public holidays annual leave childcare company car flexible hours incentive/pension scheme

People colleagues employees personnel retired sales force staff team workers workforce

I work in an office / a factory.

I work for ICI. I'm in finance. He works in the computer industry.

Our headquarters are in Oregon. The company's head office is in Beaverton.

They started/founded/set up the company in 1989. It shut down/closed down in 2004.

We need to hire more staff.

We fired him because he was rude to customers.

We train new employees to do the job.

The position offers a good/high salary.

Computers and the Internet

Nouns computer dot.com retailers e-commerce keyword hard copy hard disk the Internet mouse online

printer screen search engine software surfer virus website/site plug

Verbs build (a website) crash download log on navigate plug in print rebuild surf switch on