Unit 5



Ekonomija, II godina

saradnik: Milica Vuković

VOCABULARY – UNIT 5

- vary - to be different from each other in size, shape, etc.; varirati;

- according to - following or agreeing with sth; prema;

- determine - to make sth happen in a particular way or be of a particular type; odrediti;

- train - o teach a person or an animal the skills for a particular job or activity; obučavati;

- approach - pristupati;

- amount – nivo, količina;

- lead – voditi;

- subordinate - who has a position with less authority and power than sb else in an organization; podređeni;

- authority – the power to give orders to people; ovlašćenja;

- delegate - to give part of your work, power or authority to sb in a lower position than you; prenositi, delegirati;

- obey - to do what you are told or expected to do; slušati;

- encourage – ohrabriti, podstaknuti;

- appreciate - to recognize the good qualities of sb/sth; cijeniti;

- decision-making – the process of deciding about sth important, especially in a group of people or in an organization; donošenje odluka;

- performance - how well or badly you do sth; how well or badly sth works;

- competitive – takmičarski;

- attitude - the way that you think and feel about sb/sth; stav;

- reward – nagrađivati;

- gain – get sth; steći;

- enterprise - a company or business; preduzeće;

- self-starter - a person who is able to work on their own and make their own decisions without needing anyone to tell them what to do;

- cope with - to deal successfully with sth difficult; nositi se s nečim, izaći na kraj sa nečim;

- clash - the difference that exists between two things that are opposed to each other; sudar, sukob, nesklad, neslaganje;

- dos and don’ts - rules that you should follow; pravila o ponašanju, šta treba, a šta ne treba raditi;

- minefield – a situation with hidden dangers; ‘minsko polje’;

- spit – pljunuti;

- briefing – informisanje, izvještavanje;

- pitfall – a likely problem; zamka, klopka;

- covert - secret or hidden, making it difficult to notice; tajni;

- aspire - to have a strong desire to achieve or to become sth; imati aspiracije;

- encounter – meeting; susret;

- custom - an accepted way of behaving or of doing things in a society or a community; običaj;

- to date - until now; do danas;

- broad – širok; wide;

- track – direction; staza, kolosijek, pravac, smjer;

- etiquette – polite behaviour; etikecija, lijepo ponašanje;

- schedule – zakazati;

- appointment – sastanak; a formal arrangement to meet or visit sb at a particular time;

- be familiar with – biti upoznat sa;

- firm – strong; čvrst, snažan;

- handshake – rukovanje;

- loose - not firmly fixed where it should be; labav;

- grip - an act of holding sb/sth tightly; stisak, rukovanje;

- sole - the bottom surface of the foot; taban, đon;

- disrespect – nepoštovanje;

- cross – prekrstiti;

- offensive - rude in a way that causes you to feel upset, insulted or annoyed; uvredljiv;

- post – poslati;

- post - an occasion during the day when letters, etc. are collected or delivered;

- sack – fire; otpustiti;

- empower – to give more control; ovlastiti, opunomoćiti;

- senior – of high rank; višeg ranga, pozicije;

- condense – zgusnuti, sabiti;

- narrow – uzak;

- strip – a long narrow area of land, sea, etc; pojas;

- packed - extremely full of people; natrpan; krcat;

- tiptoe – to stand or walk on the front part of your foot; hodati na vrhovima prstiju;

- confuse – mix; pomiješati, pobrkati;

- familiarise - to learn about sth or teach sb about sth; upoznati se;

- greet – pozdraviti;

- assume - to think or accept that sth is true but without having proof of it; pretpostaviti;

- go a bomb – be very successful; AmE: go badly;

- infer - to reach an opinion or decide that sth is true on the basis of information that is available; conclude; zaključiti;

- fail – propasti;

- exuberant – happy, cheerful, full of energy; veseo, pun životne radosti, energičan;

- equate - to think that sth is the same as sth else or is as important; izjednačiti;

- lack – nedostatak;

- notion - an idea, a belief or an understanding of sth; pojam;

- failure – neuspjeh;

- wary - careful when dealing with sb/sth because you think that there may be a danger or problem; oprezan;

- talk yourself into trouble – upasti u nevolju zbog onoga što pričate;

- terms of address – riječi kojima se obraćate nekome; način obraćanja;

- hazard - thing that can be dangerous or cause damage; opasnost;

- gift – present; poklon;

- entire – cijeli;

- negotiation - formal discussion between people who are trying to reach an agreement; pregovaranje;

- appear – seem; izgledati;

- content – sadržaj;

- act – čin;

- signify – značiti;

- knife – nož;

- establish – uspostaviti;

- lily – ljiljan;

- likely - probable or expected; vjerovatan;

- literate – pismen;

- irresistible – neodoljiv;

- mature – zreo;

- label – naljepnica, etiketa;

- block – štampana;

- capital – velika; (slova)

- judge – suditi;

- delay – odlaganje;

- cancellation – otkazivanje;

- access – pristup;

- remotely - from a distance; sa daljine;

- beware – be careful; paziti se;

- inhabitant – stanovnik;

- Denmark – Danish (pridjev), Dane (stanovnik);

- Norway – Norwegian – Norwegian;

- France – French – Frenchman, Frenchwoman;

- Holland/Netherlands – Dutch – Dutch(wo)man;

- Spain – Spanish – Spaniard;

- Finland – Finnish – Finn;

- USA – American – American;

- Britain – British – Briton (Brit);

*Note: There is no noun which is commonly used to refer to the people of Britain. Instead the adjective British is used: She's British. * The British have a very odd sense of humour. The adjective English refers only to people from England, not the rest of the United Kingdom.

The noun Briton is used mainly in newspapers: The survivors of the avalanche included 12 Britons.; Brit may be considered negative and it is informal;

- Turkey – Turkish – Turk;

- Portugal – Portuguese – Portuguese;

- Russia – Russian – Russian;

- Germany – German – German;

- Greece – Greek – Greek;

- Italy – Italian – Italian;

- Japan – Japanese – Japanese;

- Poland – Polish – Pole;

- Austria – Austrian – Austrian;

- Sweden – Swedish – Swede;

- Switzerland – Swiss – Swiss;

- Ireland – Irish – Irish(wo)man;

- Montenegro – Montenegrin – Montenegrin;

- Croatia – Croatian – Croat;

- Serbia – Serbian – Serb;

- Bosnia – Bosnian – Bosnian;

- Slovenia – Slovenian – Slovene;

- Macedonia – Macedonian – Macedonian;

- Belgium – Belgian – Belgian;

- China – Chinese – Chinese;

- Czech Republic – Czech – Czech;

*Note: 1. To talk about the inhabitants of a country collectively, we use a noun which is the same as the adjective of nationality (druga kolona): Private space for Japanese...

2. To talk about individual inhabitants – treća kolona;

3. To talk about a language – druga kolona: In Holland, people speak Dutch and English.

- seaport – morska luka;

- memorandum - an official note from one person to another in the same organization (memo);

- exchange – razmijeniti;

- request – zatražiti;

- apply – primjeniti;

- contract – ugovor;

- go ahead - to begin to do sth; krenuti, početi s nečim;

- get back - to speak or write to sb again later, especially in order to give a reply; odgovoriti, javiti se ponovo;

- topic – subject – tema;

- a.s.a.p. – as soon as possible;

- available - free to see or talk to people; dostupan, slobodan;

- heading – naslov; title;

- brief – kratak; short;

- course of action - a way of acting in or dealing with a particular situation; pravac djelovanja;

- punctuality – tačnost;

- agenda - a list of items to be discussed at a meeting;

- approachable – dostupan;

- introspective - tending to think a lot about your own thoughts, feelings, etc; introspektivan;

- dependable - that can be relied on to do what you want or need; pouzdan;

- feedback – povratna informacija; advice, criticism or information about how good or useful sth or sb's work is;

- hand out – distribute; dijeliti;

- widely - in or to many places; naširko;

- eager - very interested and excited by sth that is going to happen or about sth that you want to do; željan, žudan;

- issue – pitanje, tema;

- major – very large or important; veliki;

- schedule – raspored;

- post – pošta;

- measurement – mjera;

- goal – aim – objective – cilj;

- insight - an understanding of what sth is like; uvid, shvatanje;

- amuse – zabavljati;

- reliability – pouzdanost;

- consistency – postojanost;

- coherence - the situation in which all the parts of sth fit together well; koherentnost;

- keep up with – ići u korak sa nečim;

- rapid – fast;

- obsolete - no longer used because sth new has been invented; prevaziđen, zaboravljen;

- carry out – sprovesti;

- task – zadatak;

- accomplish – achieve – postići;

- conduct - to organize and/or do a particular activity; obaviti, izvršiti;

- guideline – smjernica;

- intimidating - frightening in a way which makes a person feel less confident; zaplašiti, zastrašiti, postidjeti;

- volunteer - to suggest sth or tell sb sth without being asked;

- inconvenient – nepogodan;

- flow – tok;

- exclude – isključiti;

- community – zajednica, zajedništvo;

- enhance - to increase or further improve the good quality, value or status of sb/sth; poboljšati;

- HQ – headquarters;

- share – dio, udio;

- head up – voditi, predsjedavati;

- origin – porijeklo;

- trade fair – poslovni sajam;

- economics - the study of how a society organizes its money, trade and industry; ekonomija kao disciplina, nauka; pridjev – economic;

- economy – 1. the relationship between production, trade and the supply of money in a particular country or region; privreda; pridjev – economic;

2. the use of the time, money, etc. that is available in a way that avoids waste; ekonomičnost; pridjev – economical.

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