Top 10 Phrasal Verbs for Business in English
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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
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