Tuesday, 26 April 2016

Vocabulary blog - Workplace

Hi there!

I hope you are making progress in learning new words that are helpful for the test. Today, I have some workplace-related words to discuss. I’m pretty sure that you know most if not all of them. Just have another look at them again to review their meaning.

Workplace

• ancillary (adj.)
- providing support to the main work (e.g. We need more ancillary workers to help with cleaning.)
• benefits (n.)
- an advantage provided by the company to employees in addition to normal wage (e.g. Group health insurance is offered as one of the employee’s benefits.)
• colleague (n.)
- a person who you work with (e.g. John went to the conference with his colleagues.)
• dismiss (v.)
- to remove somebody from their job (e.g. He was dismissed from his position for misconduct.)
• labour-intensive (adj.)
- requiring many people or more effort to do (e.g. This task is labour-intensive, so we need to recruit more people.)
• partition (n.)
- a wall which separates each part in an office (e.g. Our offices are separated by glass partitions.)
• punch in/out (v.)
- to record the time when people arrive at/leave from work (e.g. I was late this morning as I punched in at 8.45 a.m.)
• resignation (n.)
- the act of leaving or quitting a job (e.g. He submitted a letter of resignation a few day ago, but it hasn’t been approved yet.)
• stapler (n.)
- a tool used to put staples into paper (e.g. Print all of the documents and use the stapler on my desk.)
• workload (n.)
- the amount of work that has been done (e.g. We need to hire more staff to help with the current workload.)

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