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English definitions (Subject) / Unit 6 (Lesson)

women in business

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  • critical mass the number of people needed to start and sustain a change 
  • Leadership ranks top levels of management 
  • outperforming doing better than others, financially
  • profitability the ability to make a good return on capital invested in the business
  • return on equity the amount of money a comoany earns on the investment of it´s sharehodlers 
  • to come across to meet or find unexpectedly or by accident 
  • compulsory required, obligatory, necessary according to the law
  • quota an officially imposed number of quantity
  • voluntary done by choice,  without legal obligation
  • compliance obeying laws pr regulations
  • Advertisement
  • dissolution the ending or termination of an organization
  • apprentices trainees, people still learning their job
  • convert someone who changes their beliefs
  • accountability being officially responsible for sth.
  • board of directors a group of persons chosen to govern the affairsof a corporation or other large institution
  • competitor a rival, a person who sells the same servicesof goods
  • affirmative action a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities