Oxford Business English Dictionary for Learners of English

a competitive/high/low/reasonable price ♦ falling/ rising prices ♦ to increase/put up/raise prices ♦ to cut/lower/slash prices ♦ price increases/reductions/ rises

ШЕИ at a 'price costing a lot of money: You can buy strawberries in England all year round, but at a price, put a 'price on sth to say how much money sth valuable is worth: They haven't yet put a price on the business. idiom at ballpark

[u] if you are given relief from a debt, a payment, tax, etc. then you do not have to pay it or you pay it at a lower rate: The organization is asking for relief from fuel tax. о The bank has agreed to some interest relief on loan repayments.

О to give/offer/provide relief* to claim/gain/get/ receive relief * to be eligible for/be entitled to/ qualify for relief

[u] help given to a country or people after a war or natural disaster, etc: emergency/flood relief

О to give/provide/send relief* a relief agency/ organization/worker

[U] (especially AmE) financial help given by the government to people who need it: state and federal relief funds о relief for farmers whose crops have suffered from the hot weather benefit noun (2)

[c with sing./pl. verb] (often used as an adjective) a person or group of people that replaces another when they have finished working for the day or when they are sick: The relief crew comes on duty at 9 o'clock, о relief drivers

relieve /ri'liiv/ verb [+ obj] to make a problem less serious: Lower energy prices will relieve the pressure on household finances. ШЗЭ relieve sb of sth 1 to dismiss sb from a job, position, etc: The manager was having trouble, so they decided to relieve him of his duties. 2 to help sb by taking away a difficult task or problem: The new secretary will relieve us of some of the paperwork.

relocate /,ri:lau'keit; AmE ,ri:'loukeit/ verb [+ obj or no obj]

to move or to move sb/sth to a new place to work or operate: The company relocated its head office to Stanford, о The owner is selling because his partner has relocated. ► relocation /.rklau'keijn; AmE ,ri:lou-/ noun [U,C]: a generous relocation package/ allowance о business expansions and relocations

remainder /ri'meinda(r)/ noun, verb

1 a law, rule or theory that sth is based on: The principles of banking have not changed much over the centuries.

1 a machine or business that processes things: The company is the world's largest processor of freshwater fish, о food/meat processors о a chemicals/plastics processor

2 (IT) the part of a computer that controls all the other parts of the system: The industry focused on

1 the process of making goods or materials or growing food, especially large quantities; the department in a company that is responsible for this: Production of the new aircraft will start next month, о The new computer will be in production by the end of the year, о We hope to go into production (= start making our product) next year, о That model went out of production in 2004. о The new car has high production costs.