Learn Business English | Essential Vocabulary | Pronunciation | Definitions | Sentence Examples ☎️🏙

In today's lesson, we're going to be covering some essential vocabulary for business English. If you've seen any of my lessons before, you should know I go very in-depth on my vocabulary, so by the end of this video, I'm really confident you will know these words really, really well. You're very welcome to your new English vocabulary channel, Learning English Pro. My name is Ger, I'll be narrating your lesson today. Let's take a look at our lesson plan for this video. And of course, as usual, you'll be learning lots of key vocabulary on our subject, business English. And don't worry, you will learn lots of definitions and context in relation to these new words. Plus, I will be giving you lots of sentence examples, so you can put your new vocabulary to work straight away. Okay, it's time to get started, so grab a pen and paper, sit back, relax, and let's learn some vocabulary together. Our first word is trademark. Repeat after me, trademark. As a common noun, a trademark refers to an officially registered name, symbol, or logo used to represent a product or a firm. Trademark can also be used as a regular verb, and this simply means to mark something or register something as a trademark. And I'm sure you've seen this symbol before, TM. This is the symbol of a trademark, so if this symbol is beside a product name or a company name, you can be sure that it is trademarked and protected by law. Are you ready for your first sentence example? We have trademarks on five of our product names and services. Our next essential business English word is organize. Repeat after me, organize. This verb means to arrange something systematically, or make arrangements or preparations for an event or an activity. Let's take a look at our example sentence. I organized the training for the new employees. There is a slight difference in the spelling between British and American English for this word organize. It's pronounced the same, but organize in American English has a Z, and in British English they have an S instead. Let's take a look at another example sentence, but this time in the future tense. I will organize the meetings with each manager for you. It's time to move on to our next word, brand. Repeat after me, brand. Brand is the term given to a company's name and the recognizable attributes that go with that company. It's about anything which defines its unique identity. You could say McDonald's is a very recognizable brand. Or how about Coca-Cola is an international brand. Another example sentence we could say is the company's brand is directed towards young professional people. Our next word is a regular verb, expand. Repeat after me, expand. It means to become or make something larger or more extensive. Our example sentence is, their company will expand its clothing range next year. Let's take a look at another example sentence, plans for the new development have expanded by 50%. And in this sentence we are using the past participle form of this verb. Our fifth word is clause. Repeat after me, clause. And this word means a particular condition or stipulation in a treaty, bill or contract. Our sentence example is, the contract included a clause which protects the employee's wages. Ok how about another sentence example, the company added a new clause to the contract which is very unfair. Up next we have an English phrase, null and void. Repeat after me, null and void. If an agreement, a declaration or contract is null and void, it is not legally valid and is essentially cancelled. Let's break down these two adjectives so you can understand them a bit better. Repeat after me, null. Null means that something that is invalid or associated with the value of zero or something lacking distinctive qualities. The other adjective was void. Repeat after me, void. And this means something that is not legally binding or something that is completely empty. So null and void is quite a negative phrase. Our example sentence is, the contract will be null and void if our client does not receive payment tomorrow. Our next business English word is competitor. Repeat after me, competitor. A competitor is an organisation or country engaged in commercial or economic competition with others. Let's take a look at our example sentence, Coca-Cola is a competitor of Pepsi-Cola. The local restaurant has a new competitor. Up next we have a common noun, which is invoice. Repeat after me, invoice. The definition of invoice is a list of goods sent or services provided with a statement of the sum due for these. It's like a bill or receipt really. Our sentence example is, we have received an invoice from our printing suppliers. You can also use this word as a verb. We will invoice you for the flower delivery from last week. Can you believe we're almost at the end of our lesson? Our ninth word is counteroffer. Repeat after me, counteroffer. And this noun means an offer made in response to another. Let's take a look at our example sentence. We have received a counteroffer from Sean on the property in Paris. Our final word for our lesson is consensus. Repeat after me, consensus. The noun consensus refers to an idea or opinion that's been agreed on by everyone. Jamie and Owen were able to reach a consensus on the deal. Our final sentence example is, there was a growing consensus that Mary should be the new manager. That's great everybody. That brings us to the end of our lesson. Thank you so much for watching. I really appreciate your support. Let me know in the comments how you got on. I really would love to hear from you. You know guys, I have a very diverse range of vocabulary lessons on my channel. Click the link on screen now to bring you to a selection of them. 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