1. _________ of manufacturing facilities from the developed to the industrializing world has
brought into play a new stream of capital flows.
2. A _________ is the _________ in economic activity that an economy experiences over a period
of time.
3. A top German engineer has been _________ to troubleshoot the cause of the accident.
4. All of them recommended _________ – a leaner, flatter management structure, with fewer layers
of management.
5. Despite retirement reforms most workers still want to stop working long before they reach the
official _________ of 65.
6. Extensive mining has reduced the _________ of coal in the area.
7. If strategies require increased government _________, this can be financed by increasing
_________, state borrowing or the money _________.
8. Increased household wealth is associated with higher personal _________.
9. Investing small amounts regularly is a good way of smoothing out the _________ and _________
of the stock market.
10. Levels of pay are the principal reason why the _________ sector still finds it difficult to recruit.
11. Many people who work in manufacturing may expect to be _________ sooner or later according
to the business cycle.
12. Middle and senior managers have been the main casualties of _________ and _________.
13. Moreover, the normal _________ for females is younger than that for men, entailing greater risk
as discussed above.
14. Most of our products are made for domestic _________ rather than _________.
15. No formal qualifications are required for the work – you'll get on-the-job _________.
16. She got a _________ job working three days a week.
17. She was _________ Chief Executive about 3 years ago.
18. Small investors were badly hit by the stock market _________.
19. Some businesses also allow _________, in which two people split a _________ job, although
that remains a scarce option.
20. The _________ has adversely affected economic activity and consequently tax collection.
21. The availability of _________ practices is reviewed and employers are urged to recognise that
employees lead full and complex lives outside the workplace.
22. The business has been cutting _________ through increased _________ of labour to low-cost
countries with fewer regulations.
23. The company employed lawyers to find _________in environmental protection laws.
24. The report calls for more government _________ on health and education.
25. The survey found most men wanted more _________ arrangements such as _________ and a
reduced _________.
26. The truth is that they _________ no more than a token number of women to managerial jobs.
27. There is concern that _________ working schedules discriminate against people without
children.
28. We got two weeks of on-the-job _________ on how to conduct interviews.
29. What started as three or four hours a week has pretty much become a _________ job.
30. While _________ size in general may not be associated with corruption, egregious forms of
state intervention are another matter.
1. to make an official examination of the accounts of a business and produce a report
2. the use of methods of recording financial information about a company, etc. which are legal but
which do not show the real situation clearly, usually making the company seem more successful
than it really is
3. the total value of a company's shares on a stock market
4. the total amount of money in a particular economy at a particular time
5. the process of making a company, way of working, etc. more effective, usually by combining
or stopping particular activities
6. the process of becoming successful or normal again after problems
7. the money that is used for a particular purpose, especially by a government, organization, or
group
8. the difference between the amount of money a country receives from exports, foreign trade, etc.
and the amount it spends on imports, etc. from other countries
9. the combined power of a group of things when they are working together that is greater than the
total power achieved by each working separately
10. the amount of money you have left when you sell more than you buy, or spend less than you
own
11. the activity in which a company buys an unsuccessful company cheaply and sells its assets
separately at a profit
12. tax on the profits made from selling something you own
13. relating to the economic principles of having government plans to create jobs and encourage
spending when the economy is contracting
14. relating to efforts to prevent companies from working together to control prices unfairly or to
create a monopoly
15. illegal methods used by people or companies to reduce the tax they pay, or a particular situation
where this happens
16. government actions to influence the way financial markets or particular industries operate
17. an organization that represents the people who work in a particular industry, protects their rights,
and discusses their pay and working conditions with employers
18. an offer to buy a company that is not opposed by the directors or owners of the company
19. an occasion when two or more companies or organizations join together to make one larger
company
20. an occasion when a small company buys a larger one using money borrowed against the value
of the equipment, buildings, etc. of both companies
21. an attempt to take control of a company by buying a lot of its shares
22. all the payments and advantages that a company gives to workers who have lost their jobs
because they are no longer needed
23. a tax that is paid at each stage in the production of goods or services, and by the final customer
24. a tax rate that is the same for everyone, whether the person’s income is high or low
25. a tax on the money that a person earns from working
26. a tax charged on goods and services rather than on the money that people earn
27. a system of controlling a country's economy by limiting how much money is in use at a particular
time
28. a small mistake in an agreement or law that gives someone the chance to avoid having to do
something
29. a situation in which a company gets control of another company by buying enough of its shares
30. a repeated series of periods of growth in business activity followed by periods of recession
31. a place where people pay less tax than they would pay if they lived in their own country
32. a person or organization that owns a building or an area of land and is paid by other people for
the use of it
33. a feature of a product that makes it different from and better than other similar products and that
can be emphasized in advertisements for the product
34. a company that owns several smaller businesses whose products or services are usually very
different