Match the words from the left column with their definitions from the right.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 547.
| 1. output | A. stage in an economic cycle in which conditions of relatively low-unemployment and high total income prevail, leading to high purchasing power (if the inflation rate is kept low) |
| 2. export | B. total national income (GDP) divided by total population, it is not the average income (because it includes children and non-working population) but serves as an indicator of a country's living standards |
| 3. home-grown | C. ratio of profit after taxes to cost-of-sales, often expressed as a percentage; it is one of the measures of the profitability of a firm, and an indicator of its cost structure |
| 4. stagnate | D. full of busy activity |
| 5. prosperity | E. to send goods or services across national frontiers for the purpose of selling and realizing foreign exchange F. to stay the same and not grow or develop |
| 6. per capita income | G. become inactive or dull |
| 7. mainstream | H. when someone stops employing someone, sometimes temporarily, because there is no money to pay them or because there is no work for them |
| 8. profit margin | I. the amount of energy, work, goods, or services produced by a machine, factory, company, or an individual in a period |
| 9. lay off | J. products and services which are readily available to and appealing to the general public, as opposed to being of interest only to a very specific subset of the public |
| 10. bustling | K. belonging to or being developed in your own country |
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