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Beschreibung
Karteikarten von Laura Maestro, aktualisiert more than 1 year ago
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Erstellt von Laura Maestro
vor mehr als 10 Jahre
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| Frage | Antworten |
| authorised | someone who have the official right or power to do something |
| cash flow | rate at which a person or business earns money and spends it (movimiento de caja, movimiento de efectivo) |
| commission | extra amount of money that you pay to an organisation when you use a servicce that it provides |
| exceed a number or amount | to be higher than it |
| laundering | putting money from a crime into legal business accounts in order hide the fact that it as been earling illegally (blanqueo) (*colada) |
| mix-up | mistake which causes confusion |
| proof | evidence that shows that something is true or real |
| record | information about something that is written down and kept (anotación) |
| strengthen | make something stronger (fortalecer) |
| transaction | bussiness deal in which someone buys or sells something, or use a service |
| trial | process of testing something to find our wheter ir works well |
| withdraw | take money out from a bank |
| write off | a debt: accept that a person does not have to it back (dar por perdido) |
| branch | part of a tree that grows our from the trunk |
| chuckle | laugh quietly (reirse entre dientes, risa ahogada) |
| cling | hold something tightly (aferrarse, agarrarse) |
| courtyard | square area that is surrounded by buildings (patio) |
| crammed | full |
| descend | go or come down |
| dignity | ability to behave in a calm and controlled way even when you are in a very difficult situacion (dignidad, compostura) |
| dissuade | persuade someone not to do something |
| flow | move along smoothly and continuosly (flujo) |
| frugal | someone who spend very little money and only buy things that are really necessary |
| glisten | shine (relucir, brillar) |
| go on | happens |
| inch forward | move forward (hacia delante) very slowly |
| lump | piece of something |
| mansion | very big house |
| march | walk in wich people walk togheter at the same speed, like soldiers |
| peer | look very carefully |
| penniless | extremely poor |
| reluctantly | do something when you do not really want to do it |
| rope | long piece of a very thick material, made by twisting a lor of threads together |
| stable | building where horses are kept |
| stern | very serious and slightly angry |
| string | long thread of wire or nylon which you use to make sounds in a musical instrument |
| thatched cottage | small house with a roof made or straw (paja) or reeds (juncos) (de paja) |
| usher | lead someone somewhere politely |
| bet | risk money on the result of something |
| gamble | risk money in the hope of winning more money |
| jackpot | very large amount of money that someone wins in a game or lottery (gordo) |
| lottery | game in which people buy tickets with numbers on, and if their numbers are chosen, they win money |
| odds | numbers that show how much money you will win if a bet wins |
| stake | amount of money that you risk when you make a bet |
| anti-social | someone who does not enjoy meeting other people or take part in social events |
| catch | difficulty or problem that is not very obvious (trampa, truco) |
| compulsive | something that you cannot stop doing yourself from doing it |
| counter argument | set or reasons and ideas that you use to oppose another set of reasons and ideas that someone has put forwards (contraargumento) |
| downplay | make something less bad or serious than it really is |
| mortgage | money that you borrow from a bank in order to buy a house |
| paycheck | cheque that an employer gives to an employee for work they have done |
| remote | chance or possibilily: very unlikely to happen |
| schooling | education |
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