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Business and industry

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  • a need for something to be sold or supplied
    Demand for sth
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  • a situation in which a business spends more money than it earns
    Loss
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  • a method of paying for goods or services at a later time, usually paying interest as well as the original money
    Credit
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  • the activity of selling goods to the public, usually in shops
    Retail
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  • to begin to have, use, or do something
    Take on
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  • relating to people who work in offices, doing work that needs mental rather than physical effort
    White collar
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  • a product that you sell in another country, or the business of sending goods to another country in order to sell them there
    Exports
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  • a period when the economy of a country is not successful and conditions for business are bad
    Recession
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  • the ordinary workers in a factory, or the place where they work
    Shop floor
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  • an industry that manufactures goods rather than producing raw materials, or these industries considered as a group
    Secondary industries
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  • an amount of something produced by a person, machine, factory, country, etc
    Output
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  • the use of machines and computers that can operate without needing human control
    Automation
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  • an industry that provides a service for people but does not result in the production of goods
    Service industries
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  • the total amount by which money spent is more than money received
    Deficit
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  • a general, continuous increase in prices
    Inflation
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  • an occasion when a company stops employing someone, sometimes temporarily, because the company does not have enough money or enough work
    Lay off
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