10 IMPORTANT Business Phrasal Verbs You Should Know

Welcome or welcome back to my YouTube channel. My name is Camille and I teach English in a fun

and authentic way. So in today's video, we are going to cover business phrasal verbs.

We're going to cover 10 of them, I'm going to give you the meaning and then we'll use them in

sentences as well. If you haven't already, be sure to activate the subtitles in this video,

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seven days. So I'll go ahead and put the link in the description box below. So let's get started,

the first one is draw up. If someone draws up an agreement or a contract papers

anything like that, it means to actually write the document. So I could say for example,

I will draw up an agreement and email it to you later today. or Jax drew up the contract

to present to his boss. Notice in the second example drew up is the past tense of draw up.

The next one is burn out. If someone burns out that means they are just completely stressed out

and exhausted. They aren't performing well at work anymore, they're so tired, they're burnt out.

Some examples, Damien finally took his vacation days because he was on the edge of burnout, to be

on the edge means close to. The second example, if you don't take a break, you will burn out.

Okay we have zero in on. It means to focus on something really intently, really closely.

So examples, in today's meeting we will zero in on the budget, that means we're gonna be

focused on the budget. Sally zeroed in on the marketing strategy during yesterday's meeting.

If you hear lay off, or if an employee is laid off, that means they've lost their job,

but it's not their fault. It's usually because of budget cuts or the company trying to reduce

their number of employees. So it's different than being fired, okay. Some examples,

Tina got laid off after working three years for the company.

The company needs to lay off two employees because of recent budget cuts.

Call off, it means to cancel. Today's meeting got called off because our boss was out of town.

So the meeting was canceled, it was called off. We have to call off the company picnic due to rain.

Fill in for, to fill in for somebody means that you do their job, but it's just for a short period

of time, so maybe that person is sick, they're on vacation, let's look at some examples. Victor

is going to be out of town next week, so sally can you please fill in for him?

I had to fill in for my boss yesterday because he was sick.

Take over, take over means to take control of something. From now on Calvin is going to

take over the graphics department. That means he's going to be in charge, he's going to be the boss.

I will take over the secretary position. Close down means to stop operating. The

company closed down last year because of covid. So that means they're no longer in business.

If our numbers aren't up the next quarter, we will have to close down the factory.

Slack off means to do something with less effort than you should. You're not doing the best job.

So don't be a slacker. Okay, Tim slacked off yesterday and wasn't able to complete his tasks,

so that's past tense of slack, slacked.

There will be no slacking off in the workplace, if you want to keep your job.

Okay the last one, the tenth one, the final one for today, run by. To run

something by someone means that you want to tell them your idea, and it's usually for approval.

So, some examples, it's a good idea, but you better run it by your boss.

I will draw up a proposal and run it by you later today. Good job you guys,

those were 10 phrasal verbs that we use in the workplace. Had you heard them before?

Were they new? Write new ones below in the comments section if you know some other ones.

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