Welcome back to love English I'm Leila and today I've got twenty five business
phrasal verbs for you now you might find it a little bit confusing to think that
we use phrasal verbs in business English phrasal verbs have probably been
explained to you as being colloquial and informal something you really wouldn't
want in a business situation right wrong phrasal verbs in business English can
often soften your language meaning it's actually more diplomatic and more polite
for example if you want to say no to somebody in a business situation you
usually wouldn't say no you would say I'm afraid I have to turn down the offer
in this case a phrasal verb is being used to be softer and more polite much
more diplomatic and you want to get anybody angry
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to business these phrasal verbs could be found in emails during meetings in an
interview so they really could help boost your language level and also help
you understand English people in the workplace ok number one to deal with
don't worry I'll deal with the problem essentially deal with means manage
handle work on it isn't that simple so what problems do you have to deal with
at work number two a really important phrasal verb that you will often hear in
business English particularly if you're watching things like Bloomberg
Television take over now to take over means that you've gained a control over
someone or something very often we can use it as a noun describing a business
take over when one Anthony has bought another company and
then manage it or you can talk about it within the
workplace she's taking over everything meaning she's taking control and not
allowing other people to do their job number three to look into to investigate
or to learn more about something we're looking into using new software for our
training we're looking into the problem we're looking into hiring more people
we're investigating something we're trying to learn more about it so number
four to sort out is very similar to deal with it means that you find a solution
to the problem don't worry I'll sort it out can you
sort that out for me meaning can you deal with the problem and find a
solution to whatever is happening thank you for sorting out the problem with my
email it's working perfectly now number five to take on now when you talk about
taking on something it means that you are taking a responsibility to accept a
task or a job that is given to you I'm pleased to offer you this new job I hope
you will take on the responsibility happily I've taken it too much on at
work I'm exhausted number six to cut back now this is
probably going to be referring to financial situations too budgets at work
we need to reduce how much we are spending number seven to back up now you
might think about this in terms of software many of us backup our photos on
a hard drive or on Google Drive so it's a backup actually means not to save but
to support in business English in this case an example would be thank you so
much for backing me up in the meeting I don't think anyone agreed with me on
that point backup think about it it's your back and
someone leaning behind you and giving you support so she backed me up when I
suggested more money in the budget number eight is
look through the simply means to search many things it might be for example a
contract at work I'm just going to look through it to check that everything is
okay so when you look through something you are checking and you might be
looking for something specific or it could just be in general I'm looking
through your notes from the meeting number nine is a great one and you can
use this in any situation to catch on now in the context that I'm giving you
to catch on means to understand and it essentially means to finally understand
and so when someone asks you are you catching on to this it means are you
following what I'm saying and keeping up to speed so for example Ally learns
quickly he caught on very fast in the job number ten is to get ahead now often
when we have a head think about the top of something it essentially means to
move up in your position or indeed improve your career my boss has told me
that if I want to get a head I need to work a little bit harder so how many of
you want to get ahead at work I'm sure many of you are looking for a promotion
number twelve is useful also if you are applying for a job remember many of us I
have to complete an application form and rather than say complete we usually say
fill in so to fill in that means to complete an application form you
literally put inside the boxes your name your date of birth your details you need
to fill in the form before you apply for the job now number twelve is actually
fill in again however as with many phrasal verbs fill in has two meanings
in this case we would use it in the workplace to say that someone is
temporarily filling a position so for example I just need to go to the toilet
can you fill in for me on the phone so it's to do
or to hold a position temporarily number 13 is a phrasal verb that you will be
familiar with in another context bring up now bring up we usually think of as
being raised to raise a child my mother brought me up however in a business
situation when you bring something up you raise an issue to introduce a topic
or idea so for example the number of sick days allowed at work was brought up
in the meeting it was raised it was brought to our attention now 14 break
down and this is not referring to you a car when it stops working in business
English when we break something down we take it down in two parts to understand
it better so we are explaining something or dividing it so it is easier for
another person to understand the new management system seemed really
confusing but when my boss broke it down into five simple steps I was able to
understand it better number 15 is another great phrasal verb to hold up or
to be held up often in the passive form it simply means to be delayed the bad
weather is holding up progress on the new building number 16 is to turn down
now this simply means to refuse sometimes in business situations a
phrasal verb can soften the language so rather than saying no or I refuse if
somebody offers you something for example I'm really sorry I'm afraid
I'm going to have to turn you down so it's a much softer way of saying
something in business English none of us 17 we had look through and
now we've got think through in the same way it means that we are processing some
information to make sure a that we understand it properly and B check
there's nothing that we're not happy with so it's to consider something
carefully the marketing team didn't think
things through when they decided to spend ten thousand pounds on the advert
none of the 18 can be a little bit rude if said in the wrong way to spell
something out if someone doesn't understand a situation properly you
might say I had to spell it out for her it basically means that you had to
explain something literally a B C D very simply very slowly very carefully
Sarah misunderstood the question so we had to spell it out for her number 19 is
really nice and simple because if you think about it it's quite logical to
point out now when you point something out you are indicating you are showing
somebody something that they might not have noticed before everybody was
shocked when the boss pointed out their mistake number 20 is to call off to call
something off not just in a business situation means to cancel so we had to
call off the meeting because the boss was sick to cool off cancel so easy 21
is put off don't get the two confused that could cause a problem to put
something off means to postpone so we put off the meeting until Friday when
the boss was feeling better we delayed it number 22 is a little bit colloquial
it's generally spoken you wouldn't write it it's quite informal to chip in
meaning to give help or to add something to the conversation so she chipped in
and gave us some brilliant ideas on how to improve the product number 23 I think
is possibly one of the most important because you really would not understand
it unless you've been watching this lesson to run something by or to run
something past someone now in this case we are getting approval we are checking
that it's okay so she ran the figures by me she ran the Biggers past
me it's usually to get somebody's opinion or indeed
like I said approval so she ran the idea past her boss he loved it
number 24 is to set up it means to arrange let's set up a meeting for
tomorrow afternoon and again it can be used within a general English context so
have you set up the meeting yet so number 25 is more of a phrasal verb
expression to put in a good word when you put in a good word
usually with someone it means that that you are adding a positive comment
usually in the case of helping somebody get a job don't worry I'll put in a good
word with the boss so to say it's something positive
to put in a good word right guys I hope that was helpful don't forget to
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