Oxford Business English Dictionary for Learners of English

[no obj] (AmE) to be available for sb to use if they pay a particular amount of money: The apartment rents for $600 a month.

'renter noun [C]: a renter of industrial equipment о It's a renter's market (= rents are cheap at the moment). hire, lease, let

see also: purchase requisition

a formal, official written request for sth: They carefully examined our requisitions for paper clips and notepads, о Do you have a requisition number for these goods?

• verb [+ obj]

to make a formal, official request or demand for sth: They have enough support to requisition an emergency general meeting.

* resignation /.rezig'neijn/ noun (HR)

[u.C] the act of officially giving up your job or position; the occasion when you do this: a letter of resignation о There were calls for her resignation from the board of directors, о Further resignations are expected.

О to announce/call for/demand/expect sb's resignation

[c] a letter, for example to your employers, to say that you are giving up your job or position: We haven't received his resignation yet.

О to hand in/offer/tender your resignation ♦ to accept/reject sb's resignation

resilient /ri'ziliant/ adjective strong and able to recover quickly from difficulties, losses, problems, etc: It is the world's most resilient and dynamic economy, о The market has become very resilient to bad news. ► resilience /ri'zilians/ (also resiliency /ri'ziliansi/ less frequent) noun [u]: the resilience of the US economy

(Accounting; Finance) to give or produce a particular amount of money as a profit or loss: We have managed to return a profit in each of the past seven years, о Bonds have returned 2.2% annually, о My investments return a high rate of interest. See note at profit

(Commerce) to take or send a product back to the place it came from because you do not want it or because there is sth wrong with it: We had to return the printer to the store because it was faulty, о How do you process and store returned goods? See note at exchange

to telephone or email sb who has telephoned or emailed you: The support staff promise to return all calls within an hour.

[U.c] a careful examination of sth, usually to see if any changes need to be made: a pay/salary review о They plan to carry out a review of their loss- making IT business, о The terms of your contract are under review.

О to carry out/conduct/launch/undertake a review of sth ♦ a financial/spending/strategic review ♦ an independent/internal/a judicial review ♦ a review body/da te/panel

[c] a report on a particular subject: a review of customer complaints о to publish a review of recent research

[c] used in the names of magazines that deal with a particular subject or profession: the Harvard Business Review

verb [+ obj]

to carefully examine or consider sth again, especially so that you can decide if it is necessary to make changes: to review the evidence о The board will review the situation later in the year, о Staff performance is reviewed annually.

• revise /n'vaiz/ verb [+ obj]

to change sth such as a document or an estimate in order to correct or improve it: We continually revise our procedures, о Marketing budgets were revised downward, о III prepare a revised estimate for you. о a revised edition of a textbook