5465 business adjectives

Business – adjectives
Absorbing
Badly-paid
Boring
Casual
Challengin
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Dead-end
Demandin
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Exacting
Menial
Part-time
Prestigious
Secure

Match the words in the box with the definitions below:
1. Requires a lot of attention, care and effort.

7. A very interesting job that requires a lot of

attention and time.
2. Requires a lot of attention and effort from

8. A job where you get paid below average.
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3. Happening from time to time.

10. A job with a lot of glamour and power.

you.

4. Demanding and stimulating.
5. To not work full-time.
6. A job of a low social value.

11. A job free from risk of loss.
12. A dull and uninteresting job.
13. A job with no opportunities for

development.

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1. My job is driving me crazy! I’m mostly being paid to be there if there are any problems that come up. This

means many days I’m just sitting there drinking coffee.
2. I am in a
job, there is no hope for a promotion.

3. Research jobs are very
. You need to pay a lot of
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attention and be very careful.
4.
All work no play. My work requires me to be there 18 hours a day.
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5.
We offer a lot of
jobs during the Easter Holidays.
6.
Sandra job requires her to work many hours but it is really a stimulating
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job.
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I will start working at the restaurant in the evening.
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Sandra thinks making coffee is a
My wife’s job is so

job and refuses to do it.
that she sometimes forgets to

have lunch.
It may sound like I am earning a lot of money, but on average, it is very low.
Being the Prime Minister is a very
job but the salary is not that good.
How
is your job? The recession has affected everyone.
Motivate your employees by offering more interesting,
job experiences
A
job is a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job.
What you can learn from a
job? Many of us have worked in a low-status or low-paid job
at some point in our lives.

d. An
job is one that is very interesting and claims all your attention.
e. I suppose what separates slavery from a
job is that the "employer"
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f.
Who, in your mind, has the more
job — a teacher or a lawyer?
g.
Taking a low-paying
job is better than having a high-paying job which
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is easy to lose.
h.
Ways to spice up a

job.
i.
A
job is a job in which there is little or no chance of progressing and

succeeding into a higher paid position.
j. Being a surgeon is a very
job – you can't afford to lose your concentration.
k. Does a
job hurt our relationships with our kids?
l.
jobs for students, during the holiday.