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ESP Business Unit 10

vocabulary for business

QuestionAnswer
Borrow ”to use something that belongs to someone else and that you must give back to them later”
Bribe ”to illegally give someone, especially a public official, money or a gift in order to get them to do something for you”
Cheap ”not expensive, or lower in price than you expected”
Confuse ”to make someone feel that they cannot think clearly or do not understand”
Copycat ”someone who copies other people’s clothes, behaviour, work”
Copyright ”the legal right that belongs to the person who has created a new artistic work or piece of software”
Counterfeiter ”a person who makes something look exactly like something else in order to deceive people”
Currency ”the system or type of money that a country uses”
Crime ”illegal activities in general”
Deceive ”to make someone believe something that is not true”
Define ”to describe something correctly or thoroughly”
Defraud ”to cheat another person to take something they own”
Digitization ”information which is in digital form”
Diverse ”very different from each other”
Ease ”something which is easy”
Enforce ”to make people obey a law or rule”
Exclude ”to deliberately not include something”
Fake ”a copy or imitation of a genuine article”
Feature ”a part of something that you notice because it seems important, interesting, or typical”
File-swapping ”exchanging files between computers on a network”
Ignorant ”not knowing facts or information that you ought to know”
Imitate ”to copy something because you think it is good”
Imitation ”a copy of something”
Inform ”to formally or officially tell someone about something or give them information”
Infringement ”a breach of law or of another person’s rights”
Intellectual Property ”something that a person or business has invented and which is protected by patent or copyright”
Intend ”to have something in your mind as a plan or purpose”
Invent ”to make, design, or think of a new type of thing”
Legal ”allowed by law”
License ”an official document giving permission to own or do something”
Link ”to relate things or ideas to each other”
Load ”a large quantity of something that is carried by a vehicle”
Patent ”a special right given to the inventor of a machine or process”
Perpetrator ”someone who does something morally wrong or illegal”
Piracy ”infringement of copyrights”
Primary ”most important, main”
Profitability ”the ability of a business to earn profits”
Range ”a number of people or things that are all different, but are all the same general type”
Scale ”a whole range of different types of people or things, from the lowest to the highest”
Secure ”a situation that you can depend on because it is not likely to change”
Severe ”very serious”
Shoddy ”made or done cheaply or carelessly”
Strategy ”a planned series of actions for achieving something”
Sweatshop ”a small business or factory where people work in bad conditions”
Symbol ”a picture or shape that has a particular meaning or represents a particular organization or idea”
Technology ”new machines, equipment, and ways of doing things that are based on modern knowledge about science and computers”
Threat ”telling someone you will cause them harm or trouble if they do not do what you want”
Tobacco ”the dried brown leaves that are smoked in cigarettes, pipes, etc.”
Track ”to find someone or something that is difficult to find by searching or looking for information in several different places”
Trademark ”a special, registered picture or symbol that is associated with a particular brand or product”
Visible ”something that can been seen”
Vulnerable ”easily harmed or hurt”
Created by: sroneykor
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