Economics. Stock market

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1) Match the words (1 – 8) with their corresponding definitions (a – h):

 1. stock exchange

2. labour market

3. insurance market

4. bond market

5. retail market

6. wholesale market 

7. futures market

8. expense account

a. the number of people who are available to work, considered together with all the available jobs

b. a place where goods are sold to the general public for their own use, not for resale

c. the activities connected with buying and selling shares in companies

d. a place where contracts to buy or sell shares, goods, or currency at an agreed price to be delivered in the future are agreed

e. a system that allows you to get back from your employer any of your own money that you have

spent while working

f. selling goods (especially in large quantities) to shopkeepers, for sale to the public

g. a place where interest-bearing securities, redeemed after a fixed period, are traded

h. a place where financial protection for property, life, health, etc. against specified risks (accident,

fire, theft, loss, damage, death, etc.) is provided

2) Match the words in the left-hand column with their synonyms:

1. to run

2. to reflect

3. to bring together

 4. to look for

5. to demand

a) to meet

b) to request

c) to show

d) to operate 

e) to search for

 

3) Match the words in the left-hand column with their antonyms:

1. to demand

2. convenient

3. to adopt

4. to bring together 

5. satisfied

a) awkward 

b) to reject

c) to offer

d) to scatter 

e) dissatisfied