Useful Words and Expressions
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 468.
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Type of work that someone does:
| Job: | - the particular activity that someone does regularly in order to earn money. |
| Profession: | - a type of work such as teaching, medicine, or law, for which you need special training and have to pass special examinations. |
| Occupation: | - someone's full-time job. |
| Business: | - the general area of work that you are involved in such as buying and selling a particular type of things. |
| Trad: | - a type of job in which you use hands to do skillful work such as building houses, making furniture, or repairing cars. |
| Applying for a job: | to find a job; to apply for a job; an applicant; to fill in an application (form); to submit an application (form); to go for/to have an interview; to have good qualifications and experience; curriculum vitae (CV). | |
| Having a job: | to have a job/to be in work; to have a career in publishing/teaching/journalism, etc.; to be without a job/to be out of work/to be unemployed/to be jobless; to leave/to quit a job; to lose a job; to change a job. | |
| Hours of work: | a 9 to 5 job; to do overtime; to work flexitime; a part- (full-)time job. | |
| Payment: | salary | - money paid every month, especially directly into a bank, especially to people who work in offices or in professional jobs; |
| wage | - money paid each week, especially by handing it directly to the worker, to people who work in factories, shops, restaurants, etc.; | |
| a monthly/weekly/yearly payment; high/low pay; high/low wages; to be underpaid/to be overpaid. | ||
| Work benefits: | (to get) a bonus; (to receive) a commission; | |
| fringe benefits: | free food or transport/free use of a car/holiday pay/ free health insurance; | |
| to be promoted; to get promotion; increments (in salary); career prospects; a ... % pay rise. | ||
| Adjectives describing jobs: | “good” | “bad” |
| challenging creative demanding exciting inspiring interesting rewarding well-paid/highly-paid worthwhile lucrative permanent/temporary steady voluntary | boring mundane badly-paid/poorly paid |
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