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

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yeah yeah she always forgets to clock in

and clock out

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