Module 13: Small and Medium  Enterprises in ASEAN

Language Focus

Language Focus 6: Business collocations

Collocation is pairs or groups of words that are often used together. Learning collocations is an important part of vocabulary building. In addition, it gives you alternative ways of saying something precise and expressive in both writing and speaking, which gives more variety.

 

To float a company on the stock market

To balance the budget

To launch a new product

To set a value

To go into partnership

To make a contribution

To set up a business

To go out of business

To make a profit

To do a deal

To make a loss

To create jobs

To conduct/ carry out  market research

To take on staff

To go bankrupt

To go under

To put in a bid

To run a business

To increase costs

To move overseas