Welcome to Business Builder! I will help you increase your Business English vocabulary so that you can communicate with your colleagues more confidently and effectively. Let’s look at each of these verbs in a sentence, and with a definition:

• Approve: “I have approved the new budget, so we can begin the purchasing process.” – Approving something means to say that something is good enough and you are agreeing to it happening.

• Increase: “We increased our profits by 30% in the first quarter.” – Increasing means to get larger.

• Decrease: “We have had a dramatic decrease in customers this year.” – Decrease means to get smaller.

• Maintain: “Jonathan maintains the database for us” – Maintain means to keep something in good working order.

• Distribute: “Please distribute the leaflets to everyone in the purchasing department” – To distribute is to give things out to people or places.

• Fund: “The project is fully funded now, so we can begin the planning stage” – To fund something is to pay for something. Fund is often used to describe paying for a large project.

• Dispatch: “The new batch of supplies has not been dispatched yet”. – To dispatch something is to send it in the post or by a courier to a purchaser.

• Estimate: “We estimate that the actual number of potential clients is much higher than this figure”. – To estimate is to make an “educated guess”. You are not 100% sure, but you have some information to help you make a good guess.

• Calculate: “I have calculated the figures for this month, and we are going to make a loss” – To calculate is to mathematically work out numerical information such as profit, loss, supplies needed etc.

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