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Put off = Postpone

Eg. Let’s put off meeting until Friday

Turned Up = Arrived

Eg: Everyone turned up on time for the meeting

Break something down = divide into smaller parts

Eg: Our clients broke the final project down into three separate

parts.

•Phrasal verbs can make communication quicker, easier and more

relaxed

With All the Conversation, American workplace is full of Phrasal Verbs.

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Deal with Someone /Deal with something

It can be used in many ways i.e. it can have many meanings such as:

1. To Handle:

Eg: The Company gets the success to deal with new clients.

2. Do business with:

Eg: We will continue to deal with the American clients.

3. Cover, concerned with:

Eg: The guidelines deal with topics such as sales and marketing.

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Set Up :It can be used in many ways such as:

1. Build /put up a structure:

Eg: The new projects set up with primary design.

2. Start or establish a new office or Business:

Eg: The Company wanted to set up new office in London and New York

3. Make Plans / establish something:

Eg: He set up a meeting with his boss to discuss his ideas.

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Work on :

1. Spend time on something:

The Software Company is working on a new Project.

2. Try to persuade someone to do something:

We had been working on a second condominium project

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Call for :

1. Ask for, demand:

• The president called for an examination of high gas prices.

• The chairman will call for a board meeting in July

• The plan calls for a 25% reduction in design nameplate costs.

2. Require:

The agreement calls for the phone company to allow access to its network

3. Predict:

Analysts are calling for further declines in the price of computer hardware.

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Come in:

1. Enter / arrive / Be introduced:

• We need to prevent viruses from Coming in our system.

• Results came in one cent a share above predictions.

2. Come in to work/the office- Email /Call / faxes come in:

• They come in every week for their pending tasks.

• The quarterly net income is likely to come in below expectations

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……Contd

Come in:

3. Join an organization / Situation:

He came in as the new head of department.

4. Finish a race (first /second/last):

He was disappointed to come in second in the competition

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