Top 10 Phrasal Verbs for the Office in English
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hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is Alisha 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 a 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 bla bla bla 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
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 - 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 workday 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
may be 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 a
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 start up 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 start up 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 maybe a new product launch
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 I’ll call
you back later or please call me back
when you have time 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 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
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 callback we can
use the expression send over separately
we can separate these two words 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 if 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 it
cleaning out my closet in that case it
means remove
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 further
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 to 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 make
up 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
it 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 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 alright
so those are ten 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 if you
have any questions or any comments
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yeah yeah she always forgets to clock in
and clock out
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