Business Writing

Phrasal verbs (II)

In my last post I promised you some more useful phrasal verbs. So let’s jump right in.

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Phrasal Verb	Definition	Example
To call (something) off	To cancel	Management has called off today’s meeting because three people are off sick.
To end up	To eventually reach, do or decide	We’ll probably end up having the meeting the day after tomorrow.
To figure (something) out	To understand, to find the answer	We’ll figure out what to do when we get the final sales figures.
To find out	To discover	Can you try and find out why our sales fell last month?
To get (something) back	To receive something that you had before	We need to get our team back to full strength, so we have made the recruitment action a top priority.
To give in	To reluctantly stop arguing	The other side weren’t entirely happy with the negotiation, but when they realized the strength of our position, they had no choice but to give in.
To give up	To stop trying	The prototype isn’t working correctly, but I don’t want us to give up on it.
To go after	To follow someone	The CEO will speak first at the meeting. The Head of Marketing will go after her.
To go after	To try to achieve something	We need to go after increased sales this quarter if we are going to meet the annual targets.
To go over	To review	Could you please go over these sales figures and provide a summary for the meeting tomorrow?
To hand (something) in	To submit	We’ve asked the client to hand in their quarterly projections by tomorrow.

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I’ll give you some more examples in my next post.

Happy writing.

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