Vocabulari en anglès: Societat, verbs i expressions

Vocabulari de compres i expressions idiomàtiques

• Auction: A publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
• Browse: Looking around the shop.
• Cashier: A shop employee who collects payment from customers.
• Charity shop: A shop that sells second-hand goods to raise money for a charity.
• Customer: A person who buys goods or services.
• Pay in cash / by credit: Modes of payment.
• Rip somebody off* (timar): To cheat someone by charging too much money.
• Be bitten by the bug: To become very enthusiastic about something.
• Be on a high: Feeling happy and excited.
• Be up to your eyeballs in: To be very busy with something.
• Live from hand to mouth: Have hardly enough food or money to live on.

Phrasal Verbs generals

• Cheer up
• Face up to
• Get through
• Go on
• Make up for: To do or have something as a way of correcting or improving (something else).
• Cognate: Descended from the same language or form.

Phrasal Verbs de comunicació i ús diari

• Call back*
• Cut somebody off*
• Get through*
• Hang up*
• Listen in*
• Make a call
• Quieten down*
• Ring up*
• Run out of*
• Switch off*
• Top up*
• Turn down*
• Enrol (in a class)

Verbs de moviment i preposicions

• Chase (after)
• Climb (up/along)
• Crawl (through)
• Cross (over)
• Dive (into)
• Get (over)
• Jog (round)
• Jump (across/into/out/over)
• March (along)
• Ski (down)
• Ski
• Swim (through)

Societat, política i economia

• Capitalism: An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
• Citizenship: The state or condition of being a citizen.
• Civil servant: A member of the civil service.
• Colony: A group of people who leave their native country to form a settlement in a new land that is to be connected with the parent nation.
• Community: A group of people who live in a specific location, share government.
• Freedom: The state of being free or at liberty.
• Healthcare: The activity or business of providing medical services.
• Household: A house and its occupants regarded as a unit.
• Law: The principles, rules, and regulations set up by a government that apply to all the people of a group.
• Membership: The state of belonging to an organization or group.
• Ownership: The act, state, or right of possessing something.
• Population: All the inhabitants of a particular place.
• Poverty: The state of being extremely poor.
• Socialism: A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
• Society: The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.
• Taxation: Imposition of compulsory levies on individuals or entities by governments.
• Tolerance: The ability or willingness to tolerate the existence of opinions or behaviour that one dislikes or disagrees with.
• Wealth: An abundance of valuable possessions or money.
• Welfare state: A state or nation in which the welfare of the people in such matters as health, education, housing, and employment is the responsibility of the government.
• Wisdom: The quality of being wise (having experience, knowledge, and good judgement).

Altres Phrasal Verbs comuns

• Come up against
• Hand over
• Move out
• Put up
• Set off
• Set up
• Spring up
• Share out