B1+ List 6 (Fall) Commerce

account (n)

An arrangement with a bank to keep your money there

 agency (n)

A business that provides a service

 assistant (n)

Someone whose job is to help a person

who has a more important job
 background (n)

A person’s education and family

 branch (n)

One of many shops or offices that are part of a company

 branch (n)

One of the many parts of a tree that grow out

from the main part
 candidate (n)

Someone who is taking an exam

 chair(wo)man (n)

A man or woman who controls a meeting, or

company, or other organization
cheerful (adj)

Happy
 conference (n)

A large meeting, often lasting a few days,

where people talk about a subject
 confirm (v)

To make sure an arrangement or meeting

will happen, often by phone or in writing
 couple (n)

Two or a few
 couple (n)

Two people who are married or having a

romantic relationship
 credit (n)

A way of buying something in which you

arrange to pay for it at a later time
 credit (n)

An amount of money in your bank account

or on your mobile phone
 deposit (n)

A payment that you

make immediately
when you decide to
buy something
 direct (adj)

Going straight from one place to another

without turning or stopping
 direct (v)

To tell the actors in a movie or play what to do

 direct (v)

To show or tell someone how to get to a place

 directly (adv)

With no other person or thing involved or

between
 duty (n)

Something you
must do because
the law says you
must or because it
is right
 exchange (n)

An occasion when you give something to

someone and they give you something else
 exchange (n)

A period when students and teachers from one

country go to stay with students and teachers in
another
 exchange (v)

To give something
to someone and get
something similar
from them
 honestly (adv)

Used to say that you are telling the truth

 (be) in charge (of) (n)

To be responsible for something

 label (n)

A piece of paper or
other material that
gives you information
about the object it is
attached to
 label (n)

A company that makes things for sale,

mainly clothes
 loan (n)

Money that someone borrows

 owe (v)

To have to pay money back to someone who gave

you money in the past
 politically (adv)

In a way that is connected with politics

 politician (n)

Someone who works in politics, especially a

member of the government
 politics (n)

Ideas and activities relating to how a country or area

is governed
 president (n)

The highest political position in some countries,

usually the leader of the government
 promise (n)

A statement that you will

certainly do something
 promise (v)

To say that you will certainly do something or

that something will certainly happen
 promise (v)

To say that you will certainly

give something to someone
 request (n)

The act of asking for something

 request (v)

To ask for something

 retire (v)

To leave your job and stop working because you are old
 role (n)

A part in a play or movie

 rude (adj)

Behaving in a way that is not polite and

upsets other people
 signature (n)

Your name written in your own way, which is

difficult for someone else to copy
 social (adj)

Relating to the things you do with other people

for enjoyment when you are not working
 tax (n)
Money that you
have to pay to the
government from
what you earn or
when you buy
things
 technique (n)

A particular way of doing something

 trade (n)

The buying and selling of large numbers

of things, especially between countries
 transfer (v)

To move someone or something from one place

to another
unemployed (adj)

Not having a job

 vote (n)

An act of choosing someone or something in an

election or meeting by making a mark on an
official piece of paper or by putting your hand up
 vote (v)
To choose someone
or something in an
election or meeting
by making a mark on
an official piece of
paper or by putting
your hand up
 wage (n)

The amount of money a person regularly gets for

his or her job