Work and Money Vocabulary

Employment Vocabulary

Employee – a person who works for another person or for a company for wages or a salary.

Employer – a person or company that has people who do work for wages or a salary: a person
or company that has employees.

Worker – a person who does a particular job to earn money.

Apprentice – a person who learns a job or skill by working for a fixed period of time for
someone who is very good at that job or skill. Does an apprenticeship.

Trainee – a person who is being trained for a job.

Intern – a student or recent graduate who works for a period of time at a job in order to get
experience. Does an internship.

Full-time job – working the full number of hours considered normal or standard. Normally 8.

Part-time job – working or involving fewer hours than is considered normal or standard.

Shifts – the scheduled period of time during which a person works.

Overtime – time spent working at your job that is in addition to your normal working hours.

Flexitime – a system in which employees are required to work a certain number of hours but
are allowed to choose their own times for starting and finishing work.

Occupation – the work that a person does: a person’s job or profession.

Profession – a type of job that requires special education, training, or skill.

Earn your living – to get (money, a salary, etc.) for work that you have done.

To get a raise – to receive an increase in the amount of your pay.

Promotion – the act of promoting someone or something: such as a: the act of moving
someone to a higher or more important position or rank in an organization.

Maternity leave – not going to work for a specific period of time since you have just given
birth.

Salary – an amount of money that an employee is paid each year.

Wage – very similar to salary: an amount of money that a worker is paid based on the number
of hours, days, etc., that are worked.

Unemployment Vocabulary

Period of notice – a statement telling someone that an agreement, job, etc., will end soon.

To be unemployed – to be without a job.

To be out of work – to be without a job.

To be on the dole – money that a government gives to people who do not have jobs or who
are very poor.
To fire somebody – to dismiss (someone) from a job.

To sack somebody – to dismiss (someone) from a job.

To make somebody redundant – dismissed from a job because you are no longer needed.

To hand in one’s notice – to give your boss a statement telling someone that an agreement,
job, etc., will end soon.

To resign – to give up (a job or position) in a formal or official way.

To quit – to leave (a job, school, career, etc.).

Unemployment benefit – money that is paid by a company (such as an insurance company) or

by a government when someone dies, becomes sick, stops working, etc.

Union Vocabulary

Demonstration – an act of showing someone how something is used or done.

Reforms – an action, plan, rule, etc., that is meant to improve something.

Strike – a period of time when workers stop work in order to force an employer to agree to
their demands.

Boycott – to refuse to buy, use, or participate in (something) as a way of protesting.

Money Vocabulary

account n. a record of money a person deposits into a bank

ATM n. Automatic Teller Machine a.k.a. Hole in the wall.
balance n. the difference between credits and debits in an account
bank n. a building in which commercial banking is transacted.
bank charges n. money paid to a bank for the bank's services etc
banker's draft n. a cheque drawn on the bank (or building society) itself against either a
cash deposit or funds taken directly from your own bank account.

barter v. to trade without using money.

borrow v. to ask for the temporary use of money on the condition of repayment
and at a set rate of interest.
branch n. local office or bureau of a bank
building society n. A building society is like a bank, but it is owned by its members - savers
and borrowers - and not by shareholders. Its traditional purpose was to
lend money to individuals to purchase or remortgage their homes. This
money used to come exclusively from individual saving members who are
paid interest on their deposits. Now, an increasing proportion, but still a
minority of the funds are raised on the commercial money markets.
cashflow n. cash earnings minus cash outflows for fixed- and working-capital
investment.
cashier n. an employee of a bank or building society who receives and pays out
money.
chequebook n. book containing detachable cheques
cheque n. written order to a bank to pay the stated sum from one's account
counterfeit n. fake money made in order to deceive - also v.
credit n. money in a bank a/c; sum added to a bank a/c; money lent by a bank -
also v.
credit card n. (plastic) card from a bank authorising the purchasing of goods on credit
currency n. money that is used by a country such as the United Kingdom.
current account n. bank a/c from which money may be drawn at any time; checking
account US
debit n. a sum deducted from a bank account, as for a cheque - also v.
debit card n. you use a debit card in much the same way as a credit card but instead
of receiving credit after making your purchase, the funds are automatically
(within a few days usually) withdrawn from your bank account.
debt n. the state of owing something (especially money).
denomination n. a number that expresses the value of a coin or bill. A five-pound note
and a ten-pound note represent two denominations.
deposit n. an amount of money placed with a bank
deposit account n. bank a/c on which interest is paid; savings account US.
fill in v. to add written information to a document to make it complete.
foreign exchange n. Used to describe the currency of other countries and the system for
dealing in such currency (often shortened to Forex).
interest n. money paid for borrowing money, or money that a bank or building
society pays a customer for putting money into their bank.
interest rate n. the percentage of an amount of money which is paid for the use of that
money over a period of time.
lend v. to give the temporary use of money on the condition of repayment and
at a set rate of interest.
loan n. money lent by a bank etc and that must be repaid with interest - also v.
mortgage n. most of us do not buy our homes outright for cash - instead we borrow
money to do so.
overdraft n. deficit in a bank account caused by withdrawing more money than is
paid in
pay v. To give (someone) money that is due for work done, goods received, or
a debt incurred.
pay n. Money paid to someone for regular work. Also see salary.
pay in v. to deposit or put money into a bank account
payee n. person to whom money is paid
paying-in slip n. small document recording money that you pay into a bank account
pence n. more than one penny.
pension n. A regular payment made during a person's retirement (when they
become too old to work) from an investment fund to which that person or
their employer has contributed.
salary n. A fixed, regular payment typically paid on a monthly basis made by an
employer to an employee. Usually discussed as the total earned in a year.
standing order n. an instruction to a bank to make regular payments
statement n. a record of transactions in a bank account
withdraw v. to take money out of a bank account
withdrawal n. the act of taking out money.

Characteristics of people regarding money

(Top, have lots of money – Bottom, have little money)

FILTHY RICH
 STINKING RICH

ROLLING IN IT

WEALTHY

RICH

PROSPEROUS

AFFLUENT

WELL OFF

HARD-UP

NEEDY

SKINT

BRASSIC

PENNILESS

BROKE

POOR

IMPOVERISHED

POVERTY-
STRICKEN

DESTITUTE

IF YOU GLADLY SHARE YOUR MONEY, YOU MAY DESCRIBE YOURSELF AS: CHARITABLE -
GENEROUS - SHARING – UNSELFISH

IF YOU DO NOT SHARE YOUR MONEY AND KEEP IT TO YOURSELF, YOUR MAY DESCRIBE
YOURSELF AS: MEAN - MISERLY - SELFISH - STINGY - TIGHT - UNCHARITABLE