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Flashcards by Emilie Pilsl, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Emilie Pilsl
almost 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| to take credit for something | say that something was you idea |
| plaint | Complaint (Beschwerde) |
| to come to the fore | to come forward/ to come to the surface |
| an alluring attraction | very tempting/ hard to resit |
| to anchor a film | to secure/ to make sure that it is good. |
| splendid performance | Brilliant/ excellent performance |
| gripping stories of epic sweep | thrilling story with extraordinary reach |
| rapture | extreme happiness/ excitement |
| to take one’s cue from somebody | to have sbd. as your role model/ to get inspired by smth. or someone. |
| to take charge of something | be responsible of smth |
| acuity | see or hear smth clearly/ good quality |
| strengths and foibles | what you are good or bad at; strengths and weakness |
| to stoke the fury of somebody | make somebody very angry |
| stellar | Extraordinary, outstanding, verry good |
| to be pitch-perfect | on the top of everything |
| valiantly | brave |
| to launch a series | to start a series |
| quick primer | quick introduction |
| seminal character | groundbreaking character/ first of his kind/ influantial |
| to reboot a character | to reinvent a character/ smb. |
| runner-up | second in line / second winner |
| international expansion | internationale Ausbreitung |
| recession | Rückgang, Rücktritt, zurückweichen, Flaute |
| concept of adaptive advantage | Companies can sharpen their quest (Nachfrage) for a sustainable (nachhaltig) competitive edge (wettbewerbsfähigkeit) by pursuing (verfolgen) adaptive advantage—a strategy that acknowledges (bestätigt) the unpredictability (unvorhersehbarkeit) of today’s environment and unlocks the dynamic qualities of competition. With adaptive advantage, approaches to (sich annähern) new problems can continually emerge. (auftauchen) |
| approaches to | sich annähern |
| emerge | auftauchen |
| unpredictability | unvorhersehbarkeit |
| to acknowledge | bestätigen |
| to pursue | fortfahren, verfolgen |
| competitive edge | Wettbewerbsfähigkeit |
| sustainable | nachhaltig |
| quest | Suche, Aufgabe |
| relevant data | Dazugehörige Daten |
| valuable partners | Wertvolle Partner |
| companies need to be more adaptive | anpassungsfähig |
| downturns | periods when business activity is reduced and conditions become worse |
| deductive | using the knowledge and information you have in order to form an opinion about something (schlussfolgernd) |
| oversee | to be in charge of a group of workers and check that the work is done satisfactorily (beobachten) |
| hidebound | having old-fashioned attitudes and ideas/ narrow-minded |
| awareness | knowledge or understanding of a particular subject or situation/ to have a conscious mind |
| resilience | ability to become strong and successful again after a difficult situation or event (Belastbarkeit, Widerstandsfähigkeit) |
| building in some slack | creating some free time/ to be less strict |
| thriving | very successful |
| sharp | able to think and understand things very quickly (schlau, scharfsinnig) |
| free-flowing | continuous and uninterrupted |
| hardly | not |
| are alive to | know about the importance of (empfindlich und bewusst für..) |
| to ready themselves for engagement | when you become involved with someone or something in order to understand/act |
| a broad shift | major change in the way people think about something or in the way something is done |
| it’s no longer | it doesn’t happen anymore |
| show up | appear- often unexpectedly |
| be attuned to | be familiar with the way someone thinks so that you can react to them in a suitable way (aufeinander eingestellt) |
| trawling | searching through a lot of documents in order to find out information |
| to make amends | to do something to show you are sorry for upsetting someone/ to make good/ to put right |
| broadcasting | sending out a program, especially via radio, TV or internet |
| realised | achieved |
| the amount realised | der erlöste Betrag |
| put out | extinguish fires by pouring water on them (figurative) |
| to defuse | improve a difficult situation (entschärfen) |
| brewing crisis | a potentially bad situation |
| at a stroke | with a single, sudden action |
| come up with | thought of an idea or answer |
| to hawk | door-to-door selling/ try to sell goods by going from place to place and persuading people to buy them (hausieren) |
| gauging interest | judging how people feel about something |
| it is proved to be | he is proved to be guilty/ lead to the success of something |
| netting (financially) | earning a particular amount of money as a profit after tax Methoden zur Verminderung von Finanzieller Risiken zwischen 2 Vertragsparteien innerhalb eines vertraglich vereinbarten Verrechnungsverfahrens. |
| financial management | having a good grasp of cashflow planning, credit management and maintaining good relationships with your bank and accountant |
| product development | making long-term plans for your products and identifying the people, materials and processes required to achieve them/ knowing your competition and your customers’ needs |
| people management | managing recruitment, resolving disputes, motivating staff and managing training; helping employees to work together as a team |
| supplier relationship | identifying reliable partners, negotiating successfully with them and managing the relationship |
| sales | identifying potential customers and their individual needs, explaining your goods and services effectively and converting potential customers into clients |
| aim of the project | Projektziel |
| outputs | Ausgaben |
| quality criteria | Qualitätskriterien |
| resources | Mittel/Rohstoffe |
| management structure | Führungsstruktur |
| milestones | intermediate goals |
| dependencies | Abhängigkeiten |
| scheduling | planung |
| fine tuning | making very small changes to something so that it works as well as possible |
| scope | range (bereich) that an activity, subject etc. deals with |
| for one | used to give an example of something (I for one...) |
| chances are | it is likely |
| mindless | completely stupid and without any purposes |
| clouds | makes a subject more difficult to understand |
| shout foul | say that something is not allowed by the rules |
| slack | resources that are not being used fully (Zeitfenster, schlaff, lose) |
| weep | complain about something bitterly |
| over-assigning | giving someone too much work or too much responsibility for a particular job |
| idly | not working, or doing something without any specific purpose Bsp.: to stand idly by (untätig daneben stehen) |
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