Glosary 2 - Activity 3
1.
Economics
/ económico / cheap , economical, inexpensive
2.
Business
/ negocios /deal transaction, local store, affair
3.
Inflation
/ inflación / increase in the
prices of goods and services over time
4.
Unemployment / desempleo , paro / lack of employment
It is a mismatch in the labor market
5.
Science / ciencia / It is an orderly system
of structured knowledge that studies, investigates and interprets natural,
social and artificial phenomena.
6.
Government / gobierno / organisms that govern
or direct a political-administrative división
7.
Business manager / gerente de negocios / He is a person who
drives the work of others in order to run a large business efficiently and make
a great profit.
8.
Deal / trato, acuerdo / by mutual agreement,
by common consent
9.
Resources / recursos / assets, wealth or
means of subsistence
10. Food /
alimento / nutritive substance that an organism or a living being takes to
maintain its vital functions
11. Housing
/ vivienda / It is a building whose main function is to offer shelter and
shelter to people, protecting them from inclement weather and other threats
12. Heating
/ calefacción / system by which heat is
provided to someone or something in order to maintain or raise its temperature
13. Convenince
/ conveniencia/ it is good, adequate or useful for someone or something.
14. Trade-off
/ compensación / it is the return of a pending debt with a person or company.
15. Effects
/ efecto / is what is considered as conclusion, the end or consequence of a
thing
16. Society
/ sociedad / group of people who relate to each other, according to certain
organizational rules
17. Microeconomics/Microeconomía:
is the social science that studies the implications of human action,
specifically about how those decisions affect the utilization and distribution
of scarce resources. Microeconomics shows how and why different goods have
different values, how individuals make more efficient or more productive
decisions, and how individuals best coordinate and cooperate with one another.
18. Macroeconomics/
Macroeconomía: Macroeconomics is a branch of economics that studies how an
overall economy—the market systems that operate on a large scale—behaves.
Macroeconomics studies economy-wide phenomena such as inflation, price levels,
rate of economic growth, national income, gross domestic product (GDP), and
changes in unemployment.
19. Private
business/ Negocios privados: a company that is owned by one person or a small
group of people, for example a family, and whose shares are not traded on a
stockmarket.
20. Household/
Hogar: a group of people, often a family, who live together in a house or flat.
21. Budget/
Presupuesto: estimation of revenue and expenses over a specified future period
of time and is usually compiled and re-evaluated on a periodic basis.
22. Run/
Correr: to go faster than a walk.
23. Agree/
De acuerdo: To have the same views, emotions, etc.; harmonize in opinion or
feeling.
24. Behaviour/
Comportamiento: the way in which one acts or conducts oneself, especially
toward others.
25. Happen/
Ocurrir: to come into being or occur as an event, process, or result.
26. Collect/
Recoger: describes gathering or bringing something together.
27. Data/
Datos: information, especially facts or
numbers, collected to be examined andconsidered and used to help decision-making,
or information in an electronicform that can be stored and used by a computer.
28. Economic
models/ Modelos económicos: is a simplified version of reality that allows us
to observe, understand, and make predictions about economic behavior. The purpose
of a model is to take a complex, real-world situation and pare it down to the
essentials.
29. Facts/
Hechos: something that actually exists, reality, truth.
30. Figures/
Figuras: a number, especially one which forms part of official statistics or
relates to the financial performance of a company.
31. Rates/
Tarifas: a tax levied on property by a local authority.
32. Relationships/Relaciones:
Is the way in which they feel and behave towards each other.
33. Earn/Ganar:
To receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services
rendered
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