Cover of the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 16 - Stiff competition for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Complete the story with these words.

Answer

  1. set up (set up a company = start or launch a company)
  2. raised (raise the capital = collect, perhaps by borrowing from banks, the money needed)
  3. loss (if a company runs at a loss, it continues to trade but is spending more money than it makes)
  4. broke even (= started making the same amount of money as we were spending)
  5. expanded (= got larger)
  6. merge (if two companies merge, they join together to form one company)
  7. turnover (a company’s annual turnover is the value of the goods sold each year)
  8. taken over (a takeover differs from a merger in that one company buys out and owns another company  – sometimes it is hostile, meaning that the targeted company doesn’t want to be taken over)
  9. competition (stiff competition = very strong, aggressive competition in the market, where other companies are trying to be more successful)
  10. venture (business opportunity)

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