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hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is alicia and today we're going
to talk about 10 phrasal verbs for the
office these are 10 phrasal verbs that i
hope you can use at work and in your
conversations about business let's go
kick off
the first word is kick off kick off to
kick off means to start something it
usually has the nuance of something big
like a big project like we're going to
kick off a new project next year or
let's kick off this new policy in
january or what time should we kick off
the party as well we can use it for
parties too
but for business it means to start a
project to start something new and it
sounds like the beginning to something
big so kick off to kick off something
means to start
something set out
the next phrasal verb is set out set out
means decide or determine or choose
something so we usually use set out to
mean to decide something within a
project for example we need to set out
some guidelines for this project or we
need to set out some rules for dress
code in the company or what do you think
about setting out some
new
guidelines for company parties for
example so set out means to decide
something and determine something
usually like a policy rule guideline
check in
the next phrasal verb is check in so
check in means update or give a status
report to share new information check in
about something we usually say to check
in about blah blah blah so
for example
what time should we check in about the
project or do you have time to check in
about this later or when can i check in
with you we can also use it
to refer to a person so can i check in
with you about this later or will you
check in with me later we usually say
check in with please be careful this is
different from check-in to a hotel
totally different meaning here at work
check in with someone or check in about
something
so check in with someone means to give
someone an update to share new
information with them check in about
means to share new information
probably with someone like in a meeting
about a specific project so you can use
check in with or check in about
something
go through
go over
the next one is go through or go over we
can use go through or go over these both
mean to review something like i want to
go through your essay with you or i want
to go over the latest draft with you i
want to go through our new policies with
everyone in the company i want to go
over some changes that are going to
happen so it means review usually like
review plus maybe explain it means to do
this in detail usually too so introduce
some new ideas review some old ideas
perhaps and have a chance to discuss
things so to go through or to go over is
sort of to examine to review to look at
some information with somebody so we can
also say i want to go over this with you
later or can we go through this together
later so it means to look in detail to
examine something
clock in
clock out
the next pair of expressions really is
clock in and clock out clock in is to
check in
at your office to clock in
means to begin your work day officially
to register the time you begin work and
to clock out is the opposite to register
the time when you leave work when you
finish work for the day so when you you
maybe depending on your office you have
to clock in in other words register or
record the time you begin work or arrive
at your office and clock out so record
the time you leave your office so
in a sentence we could say i always
forget to clock in to work or what time
did i clock out yesterday i totally
forgot or it's important to clock in and
clock out at the same time every day
start up
okay so the next phrasal verb is start
up start up means begin to begin
something please be cautious start up
something like start up a new policy or
start up a new project means to begin a
new project however you may see the noun
expression no space between start and up
startup maybe you can hear the slight
difference in pronunciation when i say
the phrasal verb start up there's a
disconnect between the words like we
need to start up a new project for
example however startup is a little bit
different startup as a noun means a
usually small new company it's big in
the news these days startups so startup
companies are very small companies they
are just beginning that's the nuance of
a startup company that's the noun phrase
a startup however to start up something
sounds a little bit different like we
should start up some new projects this
year it's more used for like policies
projects uh maybe a new product launch
um
we should start up some new things for
example but it means to begin to begin
something
call back
the next phrasal verb is call back call
back call back means to return a phone
call to return a phone call is call back
so some common examples are just uh i'll
call you back later or please call me
back when you have time
um you can separate a call and back like
i just said please call me back when you
have time you can separate the person
receiving the call you can separate call
and back and put the person receiving
the call between call and back so please
call me back when you have time or i'll
call you back so this person between
call and back is the person receiving
the call so uh you should call her back
later or
why don't you call your mother back
tonight for example you can separate
these two that's fine uh one more
example sentence would be i need to call
my clients back this afternoon
send over
the next expression is send over send
over means to email or to physically
mail something to send over it means to
send to someone else's office or to send
to someone else's computer send it over
there is the idea sending it away from
you over to a different building or to a
different department please send this
over when you have a chance so again
just as with call back we can use the
expression send over separately we can
separate these two words uh please send
this over please send the files over
please send the documents over or please
send over the documents both are fine we
can use both of them here so send over
just means mail or send something in
another example sentence hey can you
send over the updated files
clean up
clean out
the next phrasal verb is really a pair
it's clean up or clean out we can use
clean up and clean out these are a
little bit different but i put them
together because they both use the word
clean so to clean up something means to
tidy or to make it nice again to clean
up something like you need to clean up
your house we can also use this at home
meaning like to wash windows or to
to wash dishes or to to make something
tidy and clean to get rid of germs to
keep germs away to clean up your house
to clean up your office to clean up your
desk there's a similar phrasal verb
however clean out to clean out means to
remove
everything from some location so if i
say i'm cleaning out my desk it has the
nuance of i'm removing everything from
my desk maybe i'm leaving my job for
example maybe i've quit or maybe my desk
just has a lot of things i don't need
but clean out has the nuance of removing
a lot of things we can also use this
phrasal verb at home like clean out your
closet i'm cleaning out my closet so
cleaning out my closet in that case it
means removing everything from your
closet the same nuance applies to your
desk so to clean out your desk at work
means to remove everything you can also
use this for the refrigerator like i
need to clean out the refrigerator it
smells really bad so meaning take
everything out clean it and maybe put
some things back so clean up is just too
tidy clean out is like a deep clean of
something
make up for
the next phrasal verb is make up make up
usually make up for please be careful
not makeup as in like things that we put
on our face to change our appearance
makeup but make up for something so to
make up for means to compensate
to compensate so if there has been a
problem in a project for example like a
delay or a schedule change or some some
unexpected thing happens and you need to
compensate for that you need to make
some changes to fix that problem you can
use the phrasal verb make up for so for
example our project was delayed because
our president got sick for example we
need to make up for lost time so we
follow make up for with the item uh that
is the problem so in my example sentence
we need to make up for lost time lost
time is the problem we lost time it
should be a noun phrase we lost time on
the project we need to compensate for it
so we need to make up for lost time or
we need to make up for the mistake that
we made last week or we need to make up
for lost sales last quarter for example
all right so those are 10 phrasal verbs
that you can use in the office i hope
that those are useful for you like i
said some of them you can use at home as
well
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i always forget yeah yeah she always
forgets to clock in and clock out
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