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hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is Alisha and today we're gonna
talk about 10 phrasal verbs for business
so let's go step up the first phrasal
verb is step up step up means to move up
or to level up usually to some kind of
new challenging position or to a
challenging project so I want to step up
and do more for my company or I want to
step up and take on this project there's
a nuance of a challenge a move upward a
promotion perhaps and new challenges new
responsibilities so in a sentence the
new CEO really stepped up on this
project great step down the next word is
the opposite step down to step down
often means to resign or to quit one's
job especially at the higher levels of
business so a CEO might step down from
his position or her position if they've
made a big mistake or if the company has
had problems so sometimes this can mean
resign sometimes this means just moving
to a lower position in the company you
can you'll have to look into the
specifics of the situation to figure out
exactly the meaning but step down means
to go to a position of lower
responsibility so in a sentence
following multiple serious mistakes the
government official stepped down measure
up the next expression is measure up
measure up is a word or a phrasal verb
that we use to mean compare we say how
does something measure up or does this
measure up to meaning is item a equal to
item B is item a better than item B this
is a question or a word that we use to
ask how one thing compares to another
thing so like how does candidate a
measure up to candidate B is a question
of comparison between these two these
two items
or does this project measure up to our
past work in other words is this project
equal to or is it comparable to our past
works so measure up is used when
comparing two things so in a sentence
how does the new plan measure up to our
past ideas step aside the next
expression we've talked about step up
step down now we'll talk about step
aside so step aside means to move out of
the way it doesn't mean necessarily to
move up in in position or to move down
in position but step aside means just
temporarily to remove someone or to
remove yourself from a situation so you
can use this not just in business but
maybe in a very crowded space like let's
step aside and have this discussion you
can use that in a business meeting as
well - step aside is to remove yourself
from a main group or from one situation
go away from that situation temporarily
mmm that's how we use step aside so in a
sentence the company feels you should
step aside like please move away from
this project swoop in the next
expression is swoop in swoop in so we
use swoop for example with birds we can
say the bird swooped in but in a
business situation it's somebody usually
someone a person or maybe a team that
suddenly joins the company or suddenly
joins a project and maybe makes a lot of
changes so for example a a consulting
firm might swoop in to a situation or
might swoop in to a project or maybe the
boss swooped in to the meeting and made
a lot of changes so these these
sentences these are situations where
something suddenly happens by a one
person or by a group of people in
another sentence the consultant swooped
in and changed around our entire
organization shake up the next phrasal
verb is shake up shake up means to make
a lot of changes at one time or two
maybe change
atmosphere or to change a company
feeling this can also be applied to
situations outside of work like maybe
art for example other industries
manufacturing industry it means to make
changes for so one person or one group
makes changes so you could say for
example Apple shook up the smartphone
industry when it introduced the iPhone
so it means to make changes or to bring
about new change in a sentence
she really shook up our department with
her innovative ideas come online the
next expression is come online come
online so this is interesting
of course you're watching this video
presumably probably on the internet
online right now but the expression come
online means become able to use
something usually publicly or at least
within your company so when a new
project comes online it means it's it's
now available it can be used or it can
be purchased we typically use this
expression for some kind of service so
for example a web platform or an
application or something that other
people can use
so come online means become available
come online means become available in a
sentence then our new service is going
to come online at the end of the month
expand into the next expression is
expand into expand into so we can use
expand into to mean moving more or
moving to another place or to another
industry with your business operations
so we can use perhaps a country or a
region after this expression or we can
use an industry name after this
expression so you can say we want to
expand into China we want to expand into
Japan with our business or you can say
we want to expand into the electronics
industry we want to expand into the
service industry expanding into
something talks about the direction you
want your company to move in expand into
so in a sentence we'd like to expand
into some other markets to bring about
the next expression is to bring about to
bring about means to make something
happen to cause something to happen we
often use this to talk about change I
can be positive or it can be negative I
feel I tend to use this more in a
positive situation but that might just
be me so to bring about means to cause
something or yet to make something
happen
in a sentence don't you think we should
try to bring about change in our company
take on the next expression is take on
so take on if you if you can kind of
make a visual with this phrasal verb you
can take something and attach it to
yourself to take on something but this
thing you're taking is responsibility so
to take on something it has the nuance
of a challenge or a new responsibility
it's something that is generally seen as
positive but perhaps could be maybe a
lot of new work or a big new project for
example so I might say I want to take on
some new projects this year or you could
use it outside of business like in a
kind of aggressive situation like like I
tried to take on a really big guy at the
club but he punched me so you could use
this too but it has the nuance of
challenge ever every time you use it so
in a different sentence I was asked to
take on more responsibilities at the
office oh that's the end so those are 10
- phrasal verbs for business I hope that
those are useful for you if they are
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