Vince & Booklet

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Add up to
Combine to produce an effect or result
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Break down
Divide something into separate parts
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Build up
Make something increase, gradually develop or talk in a positive way about someone so people are impressed with them
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Buy off
Give someone money so they do not act against you
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Buy out
Pay to your business partner so you can controll all the business
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Buy up
Buy large amounts of something
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Carry over
Take something that you earn in a period of time to the next one
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Clock up
Reach a particular amount
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Club together
When each people give money so all the money collected can be used to buy something
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Drum up
Try to make people support or buy something from you
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Mount up
Get much larger
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Pay back
Give someone the same amount of money you were borrowed
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Pay out
Spend or pay money, eg pay out investors
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Size up
Think carefully and form an opinion about person or situation
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Take away
Remove a quantity from another quantity
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Weigh down
Make someone heavy and unable to move easily
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A drop in the ocean
A very small amount that will not have much effect
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Break even
Neither make profit nor loss
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Fall short
Not reach a level or fail to achieve something
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Fifty-fifty
Two equal parts
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Go halves
Share the costs of something paying 50% each
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It's as broad as it's long
You cannot choose between two things because they are equal
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Keep up with the Joneses
Try to be as rich/successful as your neighbours
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Knee-high to a grasshopper
Very small, because very young
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Line your pockets
Obtain money, even if acting dishonestly
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Lock, stock and barrel
Including every oart of a thing, situation or place
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Six of one and half a dozen of the other
To say two thing are equally good or bad
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Tidy sum/amount
Large sum/amount
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Ample
Generously sufficient to satisfy a requirement or need
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Batch
Group things of the same type together
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Bulk
Mayority or longest part of something
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Extent
Degree to which something happens or importance of situation
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Heap
Large amount
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Meagre
Lacking in quantity or quality
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Minute
Very small thing
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Down payment
Initial payment
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Lump sum
Large payment made at once
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Spending power
Ability to spend money after paying taxes, etc
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To have a nice little nest-egg
To have some savings
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Thrifty
Not to waste money
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Household bills
Gas, water,etc
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Instalments
Payments after down payment (cuotas)
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Credit rating
Evaluation of the credit risk of a prospective debtor
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Endeavour
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