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More expensive than it shows
Pricey
that something is important enough to justify the amount of time or work that one must do to achieve it.
worth your while
having no value:
Worthless
more valuable than any amount of money; precious:
Priceless
there is only just enough of it:(money)<br />
Estamos justos de dinero
Tight
looking too bright, big, and expensive in a way that is intended to get attention and admiration:
Something that is expensive but vulgar in bad taste
Flashy
unwilling to spend money:
Penny-pinching
Stingy
tight-fisted
to try to make someone do something for you by giving them money, presents, or something else that they want
A bribe
to pay someone some money before the regular time:
To receive your salary before payday
An advance
-A payment especially into a bank account.
-An amount of money that you pay as the first part of the total payment for something.
-An amount of money that you pay when you rent something and is returned to you when you return the thing you have rented.
Is money you pay to someone to reserve or to set a aside.
A deposit
an amount of money paid for a particular piece of work or for a particular right or service:
A fee
-to keep or save something from a larger amount or supply in order to use it later for a particular purpose
Reservar algo que compraste con dinero
-The act of paying farmers in order not to grown cops on areas of land.
-s a part of an amount of government money that must be used to give work to businesses owned by women or minorities
- an amount of money kept for a special purpose:
To set aside (Phrasal Verb)
to arrange to have a seat, room, performer, etc. at a particular time in the future:
Pay some for money for a reservation
To book
having a lot of money; rich:
Loaded
having no money:
Skint
Broke
Flat broke
having very little money:
Hard up
To close something<br />
Cerrar algo
To shut down<br />
To close down
to have no profit or loss at the end of a business activity:<br />
to earn enough money to pay for expenses, without any profit:<br />
No perder nada ni ganar nada en el negocio al final del día
To break even (phrasal verb?)
with money in your bank account, or with more money than you owe
Be in the black
with more money being spent than there is available
you owe money to the bank.
Be in the red
a person in a hotel employed to carry suitcases, open doors, etc. for guests
Bellboy
a large amount of money that is demanded in exchange for someone who has been taken prisoner, or sometimes for an animal:
Ransom
a regular amount of money that a law court orders a person to pay to his or her partner after a divorce (= the legal ending of a marriage)
Alimony
Maintenance
​a person who makes someone go somewhere with them, especially using threats or violence:
Kidnapper
Abductor
to force someone to go somewhere with you, often using threats or violence:
To abduct
PIB
GDP<br />
Gross domestic product
a small present, especially of money, given at Christmas
Christmas box
Financial beneficts
Plata
Royalties
one of a number of payments that you make over a period of time to pay for something that you can use while you are paying for it:
Installment
To buy something immediately ( de contado)
Down payment
automated teller machine: a machine, usually in a wall outside a bank, shop, etc. from which you can take money out of your bank account using a special card:
A.T.M
Cash dispenser
a person in a bank who receives and pays out money to customers
Teller
a person who has succeeded in business or industry and has become very rich and powerful:
Tycoon
Magnate
Mogui
​a poor person who lives by asking others for money or food
Beggar
to take money out of an account:
To withdraw
<br />
(the total amount collected of) a plant such as a grain, fruit, or vegetable grown in large amounts:
Crop
To be in bankrupt
When a company fails
go belly up
a method of paying for something in which the buyer pays part of the cost immediately and then makes small regular payments until the debt is completely paid
H.P
Hire purchase
to leave a possession with someone in order to borrow money from that person, with the understanding that if you do not pay it back within the agreed time, the person can keep your possession and sell it
To pawn
a store where you can leave possessions in order to borrow money, or buy objects that others have left there and that are now for sale
Pawnshop
​a person who lends money in exchange for objects that he or she can sell if the person leaving the objects does not pay an agreed amount of money in an agreed time
Pawnbroker
to become rich suddenly and unexpectedly:
To strike it rich (Idiom)
to strike it lucky
you buy it by making small regular payments over a long period
The same of hire purchase but it's an idiom
To buy something on the never-never (Idiom)
a usually public sale of goods or property, where people make higher and higher bids (= offers of money) for each thing, until the thing is sold to the person who will pay most:
Auction
a person in charge of an auction who calls out the prices that people offer
Auctioneer
A system is one in which you pay for a service before you use it and you cannot use more than you have paid for:
Pre-paid services
Pay-as-you-go
to ask an amount of money for something, especially a service or activity:
To charge
an area of grass, especially near to a house or in a park, that is cut regularly to keep it short:
Lawn
to cut plants, such as grass or wheat, that have long, thin stems and grow close together:
Mowing
to mow
(an amount of) money paid to the government that is based on your income or the cost of goods or services you have bought:
Tax
all the people who pay tax to the government
Taxpayer
Los descuentos que le hacen a tu sueldo en la empresa donde trabajas
Pay-as-you-earn<br />
PAYE
the amount of earnings that you have left after tax, etc.
Your real salary
Take-home-pay
a person or organization that promises to pay back a loan (= borrowed money) if the person or organization that borrowed it cannot pay it back:
Guarantor
to get or receive something from someone with the intention of giving it back after a period of time:
To borrow (from)
to give something to someone for a short period of time, expecting it to be given back:
To lend (to)
something that takes a time (you put the time) to happen, do, or use
ten minutes’ worth/a week’s worth etc of something
A day's worth
Vale la pena mirarlo de rapidez
worth a quick look
Probar tu valor
Prove your worth
No vale la pena
Not worth
said when you are giving someone a piece of information and you are not certain if that information is useful or important:
For what is worth
to give someone who has provided you with a service an extra amount of money to thank them:
Tip
useful, important, or good enough to be a suitable reward for the money or time spent or the effort made:
Worth spending your time on
Worthwhile
an amount of money paid regularly by the government or a private company to a person who does not work any more because they are too old or have become ill:
-a person who receives a pension, especially the government pension given to old people:
Pension/Pensioner
unable to pay what you owe, and having had control of your financial matters given, by a law court, to a person who sells your property to pay your debts
Bankrupt
to spend or lose all of one's money : to go broke
Go bust (idiom)
Went bust
to make something easier to understand:
demystify
having a system that prevents change and produces new things that are very similar to the old ones even if they are bad things
Self-perpetuating spiral
a condition that makes someone work a lot of the time and find it difficult not to work:
Workaholism
to waste money, time, or an opportunity:<br />
Expand all your money in an irresponsible way<br />
Botar el dinero o algo de manera abrupta
To fritter something (money) away
to waste money, time or to waste opportunities by not using them to your advantage:<br />
To expend your money in an irresponsible way
To Squander (action)<br />
Squanderer (person)
to shop excessively; to buy a lot of things in an extravagant way
When you go shopping and you expend your money in differents stores.
To shop on spree
to go on a shopping spree
money that is given to someone to make them keep something secret:
hush money
Caminar derecho hasta sobrepasar a alguien
To walk past
relating to a business or part of abusiness that does not make a profit:
Loss-making business
of or at a height to reach the waist.
Waist-High
minutes to finish something
Minutes to go
to deserve and get something good, such as attention, respect, or a lot of money:
Money that you deserve or you really get
Command
to be extremely important, so that many ordinary events could not happen without money
Money makes the world go round
lending money is always dangerous. Sometimes, when people are unable to pay you back, you take help from your friends due to that failed deal. it is disgusting to borrow money, because it indicates that you are living outside of your resources and means.
Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be
Money, more specifically the desire to obtain and amass it, is the ultimate reason humans do evil things to one another.
The love of money is the root of all evil
If you concentrate on saving small amounts of money you'll soon amass a large amount
Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves
When a person prefers to buy things in global brands than in local business makes that always local business don't develop and flourish and the global brands continue expanding
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
Money can buy material things, but real happiness must be truly earned
Money can't buy happiness, but you can rent it for a while
Money is not the key to a happy life but without it, we would be sad
Money can't buy happiness but it helps a lot
To be very rich until the point of people believes you as a person who is...
To be made of money
money is something that must be earned and that it is not easy to acquire it.
Money doesn't grow on trees
Simon the silly wants to buy a cake but the salesman says to him first:
I want to see the colour of your money
to marry a rich person:
To marry money (Idiom)
To have a lot of money that one can spend freely (and often unnecessarily).
To have money to burn
(Idiom)
Generic term for all types of bank cards, credit cards, debit cards, smart cards, etc.
Plastic money
a book of cheques with your name printed on them that is given to you by your bank to make payments with
chequebook
a cheque that has been signed but does not yet have the amount of money written on it
A blank cheque
Marranito del dinero
Piggy bank
the people who are very wealthy and the people who are very poor
The haves and the have nots
the lowest wage permitted by law or by a special agreement.
minimum wage
The central idea of something (the main idea)
Gist
the unfair situation in society when some people have more opportunities, money, etc. than other people:
Inequality/ unequal
the total amount of a person's or organization's income in a one-year period before tax is paid on it:
Annual income
When a famous person appears in a commercial
Sponsorship deals
The main head of a company
CEO
The chief executive officer of a company
La cabeza de una compañia (no es CEO)
Someone who lasts for a short time being the boss
Short-lived head
to make something seem small or unimportant<br />
Hacer una comparación entre algo grande y pequeño y grande
To dwarf <br />
Majestic dwarfs the other buildings
Actividad hecha en muchos grupos para desarrollarla de forma más rápida
Split activity
To divide an activity into several pieces
Information gap<br />
Split activity
to read or consider something quickly in order to understand the main points, without studying it in detail:
Skim
to look at something carefully, with the eyes or with a machine, in order to get information:
To scan
the amount of money a person earns:
Pay packets
money that is earned from doing work or received from investments: ( INGRESOS COMPLETOS)
Casa, carro, plata guardada
Income
to take something or someone away by force:
Coger algo y salir corriendo
Snatch
a place in a public building where things that people have lost are stored
Lost property office (UK)
Lost and found (USA)
is any of the British universities built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in cities such as Liverpool and Manchester, and not one of the older ones such as Oxford or Cambridge:
Red brick universities
a line of machines and workers in a factory that a product moves along while it is being built or produced. Each machine or worker performs a particular job that must be finished before the product moves to the next position in the line.
Production line
payment for work or services:<br />
Money that is earn for a service or work
Remuneration<br />
They demanded adequate remuneration for their work.
most important or best; leading:
Mainly
Foremost
a serious infectious disease that can cause permanent paralysis (= being unable to move the body):
Polio
Poliomyelitis
​someone who regularly does special exercises to make their muscles bigger:
Bodybuilder
you have a wide variety of options and you gave one that is very far one way and now you will say the one that is very far the other way.
End of the scale
they are often criticized by people, but you think the criticism is unfair or exaggerated because they have good qualities too.
Causing or intending to cause harm or evil
Much-maligned
of superior or excellent quality; outstanding (football meaning)
Top-flight (football club)

excellent; of very good quality:

extremely good:
Topnotch
A person who has died
The late
My late grandfather was a very generous man
The action of ending a rule or law<br />
Levantar una ley
To lift (terminar)
The lifting regulations
When you stop it ( Una ley o un proyecto )
To lift
gradually:
Steadily
a situation in which a price, etc. becomes lower (or upper) , or a situation gets worse (or better) and is difficult to control because one bad event causes another:
Something that goes up towards a high position, level or value

When a price becomes lower or a sittuation is getting worse than before
Upward spiral
downward spiral
something you say when you want something to stop:
You don't want to continue with something
Enough is enough
to start to become annoying or worrying:
It's gone beyond a joke
or get beyond a joke
Los mejores en algo ( equipos de fútbol )
Top-division clubs
based on or acting on good judgment and practical ideas or understanding:
Logic
best option
Sensible
Sensible advice
to have a party:
To throw (a party)
Prime minister
PM
to start an activity with a particular aim:
To set out (Something)
to make something full, or to become full:
To fill up (with something)
a division of a company, etc. into smaller parts:<br />
Terminar
To break up
Another way of say pounds
Quid = same as plural
a large, expensive car, often driven by a chauffeur (= a person employed to drive a car for someone else)
Limo
limousine
to be very pleased:
Over the moon<br />
a meal which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere.
Takeaway meal
to pull something quickly and usually with a lot of force:
Como el vaso de cafe de la viejita
Tug
it is extremely hot:
Scalding
to take someone or something, esp. by car, to a particular place:
To Drop someone/something off
(Phrasal verb)
a cover that can be lifted up or removed from a container
(tapa)
Lid
money that is paid to someone by a person or organization who was responsible for causing some injury or loss:
Damages
to take legal action against a person or organization, especially by making a legal claim for money because of some harm that they have caused you:
Sue
very shocked:
Horrified
a group of people who have been chosen to listen to all the facts in a trial in a law court and to decide if a person is guilty or not guilty, or if a claim has been proved:
Jury
a place where trials and legal cases are decided, or the group of people who deal with legal cases there:
Court of law
is a pejorative term used to imply that, within a society, a significant number of claims for compensation for torts are unjustified, frivolous, or fraudulent,
Compensation culture
to succeed in doing something that is difficult
To pull off<br />
(Phrasal verb)

to (cause to) fall over onto one side:
REGARSE ALGO
Tip( something or someone) over
(Phrasal verb)
a piece of skin taken from one part of the body and used to replace damaged skin in another part
Skin graft
Tipos de quemazon de piel
first-degree burn
the least serious type of burn that needs medical treatment
second-degree burn
a serious burn in which the skin develops blisters
third-degree burn
a very serious burn in which the flesh is destroyed
the money earned by an employee, esp. when paid for the hours worked:
Wages
the amount of money that a court orders to be paid to someone in return for something that has been lost or damaged:
Actual damages
an amount of money that someone who commits a crime has to pay, that is intended to be large enough to prevent them or others from committing similar crimes in the future:
Punitive damages
a strong expression of anger and disapproval about something, made by a group of people or by the public:
Outcry
in a way that involves someone doing something they do not want to do:
Unwillingly
Cual es tu opinion en... (Expression)
What's your take on.. thing
feeling that you have the right to do or have what you want without having to work for it or deserve it, just because of who you are:
Entitled
To take something into account

​to accept a new idea, method of working, etc.:
To take something on board
Involving people working together to achieve something
Collaborative
Willing to take risks in business
Entrepreneurial
Good reports and reviews of something in the media
Favourable publicity
An idea or way of doing something that is new. different from and better than those that existed before
Innovative
Established for some other reason than to make money
Non-profit-making
Unusual, especially in an interesting way
Quirky
Paying for itself
Self-funded
To begin very well or successfully
To get off to a flying start
To make a formal, public promise to give money
To pledge money
Prefix Anti Means
Against
Anti-war
Anti-government
Prefix -Bi Means
Two
Biannual
Bilingual
Prefix Dis Means
The opposite of
Dishonest
Disorderly
Prefix In Means
Not
Incomplete
Incompetent
Prefix Inter Means
Between
Interactive
Intercontinental
Prefix Mal Means
Badlyy
Maladjusted
Malodorous
Prefix Mis Means
Wrongly/Badly
Misguided
Misinformed
Prefix Mono Means
One
Monolingual
Monosyllabic
Prefix Multi Means
Many
Multi-purpose
Multi-cultural
Prefix Out means
Beyond, Outside
Outdated
Outlying
Prefix Over Means
Too much
Overactive
Overworked
Prefix Post Means
After
Post-war
post-industrial
Prefix Pre Means
Before
Pre-war
Pre-industrial
Prefix Pro Means
In favour of
Pro-western
Pro-European
Prefix Semi Means
Half
Semi-precious
Semi-professional
Prefix Sub means
Under or Below
Subtropical
Subconscious
Prefix Un Means
Not
Unimportant
Ungrateful
Prefix Under Means
Not Enough
Undercooked
Underpaid
Suffix Able Means
Can Be
Adjustable
Believable
Breakable
Suffix Al
Economical
Historical
Digital
Suffix Ful Means
With
Cheerful
Truthful
Hopeful
Suffix Ic
Electric
Symphonic
Atmospheric
Suffix Ish Means
Quite- Not Very
Tallish
Reddish
Warmish
Suffix Ive Means
impressive
Responsive
Inventive
Suffix Less Means
Without
Cordless
Stainless
Fearless
Suffix Ous
Humorous
Luxurious
Harmonious
Suffix Y
Misty
Handy
Pricey
the period that follows an unpleasant event or accident, and the effects that it causes:
Aftermath
to give something to someone as their share of a total amount, to use in a particular way:<br />
Cuando el gobierno da un porcentaje para destinarlo a algo ( la salud por ejemplo )
To allocate
to try to communicate with a person or a group of people, usually in order to help or involve them:
Reach out to (young) somebody
to start an action that is taken to deal more strictly with crime, a problem, protests, etc<br />
Medidas que se usan para evitar que algo ilegal grave pase desde el gobierno
To launch a crackdown
a series of three successes, especially in sports such as football when the same person scores three times.
To score a hat-trick
to visit someone you know, especially when you are in the place where they live for a different reason.
To look somebody up
to perform a ceremony in which you officially state that a building is ready to be used
To open a museum
to put a boat or ship into the water
To launch a new ship
to put or knock against someone in a crowd, especially so you can get somewhere or do something before other people.<br />
En los juegos de fútbol cuando se meten por el balón
To jostle for position
to help someone do something
To give someone a hand (spoken
to go and live in a different house.
To move house
used to ask a question when you are very surprised or angry<br />
Expression
On earth (spoken)
used to say that something will be given first priority
First thing
to study facts again, in order to learn them before an examination.
To revise (BRITISH ENGLISH)
this phrasal verb has many meanings — only one is explained here)
to search something in order to find something in particular.
Go through
of amounts or numbers) very small or not enough.<br />
Restringido insuficiente
Meagre
Negative Inversion
For a Moment
Not for a moment and inversion
Negative Inversion
Only When
Colocar only when y la segunda frase sin inversion despues añadir la primera con la inversion
Negative Inversion
As soon as
Puede ser
As soon did (subject)
No sooner than did (Subject)
a large, long radio or music player that can be carried around by hand
Ghetto Blaster
the value of all investments that are traded:<br />
Bolsa de valores
Stock market
a person whose job is to receive and pay out money in a shop, bank, restaurant, etc.
Cashier
to offer a particular amount of money for something that is for sale and compete against other people to buy it, especially at a public sale of goods or property:
bid
an amount of money that is borrowed, often from a bank, and has to be paid back, usually together with an extra amount of money that you have to pay as a charge for borrowing:
Loan
too willing to believe that someone is telling the truth, that people's intentions in general are good, or that life is simple and fair. People are young and/or have not had much experience of life:
Naîve<br />
Gullible
the fact of finding interesting or valuable things by chance
Serendipity
an organization, especially a business, or a difficult and important plan, especially one that will earn money:
Enterprise
wanting very much to do or have something, especially something interesting or enjoyable:<br />
Expectante
Eager
a person who has stopped working:
Retiree
a person's husband or wife:
Spouse
a short period of doing a particular, usually enjoyable, activity much more than is usual:<br />
In an excessive way
Spree
To write a cheque
To issue a cheque
a line of things, people, animals, etc. arranged next to each other:
filas
Row
a mathematical picture in which different amounts are represented by thin vertical or horizontal rectangles that have the same width but different heights or lengths
A Bar chart
a general development or change in a situation or in the way that people are behaving<br />
Tendencias
trend
Vocabulary for graphs
Movements Up
rises /Rose
it rose about 3m,
Go/ Went Up
Spending on research went up from $426 million to $461 million.
Increased
Investments are certain to increase in value.
Grew
Sales of new cars grew by 10% last year.
Shot Up (Quickly and suddenly)
Demand for water has shot up by 70% over the last 30 years.
Surged (Suddenly and Greatly)
Oil prices surged.
Rocketed (Increases quickly and suddenly)
Car sales rocketed from 180 to 2000 a year.
Vocabulary for graphs
Prepositions
Between 1995 and 2000
From 1995 to 2000
Sales rose from 200 to 250
Sales fell to 150 in March
Sales fell by 195% or Sales plummet by 195%
Vocabulary for graphs
No movements (Usar con adjectivos y otros verbos)
Remained steady and were unchanged (means don't change)
Did not change
Remained constant
Remained stable
Stabilized
Vocabulary for graphs
Movements down
Fell
declined
dropped
decreased
sank
Shares in the company have sunk as low as 620p.
went down
plunged (suddenly decrease by a large amount)
plummeted (suddenly quickly)
Vocabulary for graphs
Adverbs and intensifiers
Sightly and a little (ar the same)
A lot
sharply (bruscamente) (Suddenly by a large amount)
Prices have risen sharply over the last few months.
suddenly (de repente)
steeply (abruptamente)
gradually (slowly, over a long period of time)
gently (suavemente)
steadily (continuamente)
Vocabulary for graphs
Tops and Bottoms
Reached a peak (Alcanzar un pico)
peaked ( en la cima)
Reached their highest level
Fell to a low (Caer mas bajo a lo mas minimo)
Sank to a trough
Reached a bottom ( Lowest possible value)
Ways to explain numbers
-The number went up or went down by (number of difference) from (initial number) to (final number)
-Double/Doble
The number doubled between 1992 and 1994
-Twofold increase/ Aumentar dos veces
There was a twofold increase between 1992 and 1994
-Trebled/ Triple
The number trebled between 1994 and 1996
-Three times/ Tres veces
The figure in 1996 was three times the 1994 figure
-Quadrupled/ Cuatruple
The figure quadrupled from 1996 to 1998
-Four times/ Cuatro veces
The figure in 1998 was four times the 1996 figure
-Sixfold/ Seis veces
The figure (went up) sixfold between 1992 and 1994
Ways to explain fractions
-The number went up or went down by ( half or one-fith etc) from (initial number) to (final number)

Que el total se puede dividir en 5 partes iguales
-One fifth/Un quinto (fracciones)
Between 1992 and 1994 the figure fell by one fifth
-A half/La mitad (fracciones)
Between 1994 and 1996 the number dropped by a half
Un decimo (Fracciones)
Que el total se puede dividir en 10 partes iguales
- One-tenth / Un decimo
The figure in 1998 was one-tenth the 1992 total
Ways to explain percentages
The figure went up or went down by (percentage) from (initial number) to (final number)
The figure went up or went down (percentage) to ( final number)
Ways of expressing Numbers
20 por ciento
20%
Uno en 5
Un quinto
Twenty per cent
One in five
A fifth
Ways of expressing Numbers
25 por ciento
25%
Uno en 4
Un cuarto
Twenty five per cent
One in four
A quarter (of)
Ways of expressing Numbers
10 por ciento
10%
Uno en 10
Un decimo
Ten per cent
One in ten
A tenth
Ways of expressing Numbers
Un poco mas del 30%
32%
Un tercio
Uno entre tres
Just over thirty per cent
A third
One in three
Ways of expressing Numbers
75 por ciento
75%
Tres cuartos
Tres de cuatro
Seventy five per cent
Three quarters
Thee out of four
Ways of expressing Numbers
Un poco mas de 60%
62% aprox
Dos tercios
Tres de cuatro
Just over sixty per cent
Two thirds
Two out of three
Countable nouns used to describe figures and statistics
Several
The Majority of
Few
Many
A small number
Fewer and fewer
Fewer
Uncountable nouns used to describe figures and statistics
A little
A large amount
Much
Less and less
A small amount
less
Countable and Uncountable nouns used to describe figures and statistics
A lot of
No
None of
Most
More
a mathematical picture in which different amounts are represented by thin vertical or horizontal rectangles that have the same width but different heights or lengths
bar chart
a way of showing information about how a total amount is divided up, consisting of a circle that is divided from its centre into several parts
Pie chart
a drawing that uses lines to show how different pieces of information are related to each other:
Line graph
Ejes (lados de una grafica)
Axes
Title of the graphic
Key or legend
Titles and labels
Redondear cifras
To round a figure up
Tenses for describing charts
Present simple and past simple (static graphs)
Simple past and past perfect (dynamic chart)
Hacer una fortuna
To make a large profit
the increase in the number of people who do not have a job that provides money:
High unemployment
the act of reducing the amount or number;<br />
Reducir presupuestos
Spending cut
an increase in the level of economic activity, and of the goods and services available
Economic expansion
Another way of say inflation
Another way of say economic crisis
Economic boom
Recession
a very successful and powerful person or organization:
Giant
a person from one's own city or country.
fellow citizen
known or talked about by many people; famous.
renowned
giving money, food, or help free to those who are in need because they are ill, poor, or have no home:
charitable
a false spoken statement about someone that damages their reputation, or the making of such a statement:
Slander
Very valuable (Worth word)
Worth a fortune
Deserving
Worthy
Valer la pena conservar (tener) o guardar (algo)
Worth keeping
Valer la pena el esfuerzo
Well worth the effort
Sencillo de dinero
(Five) pounds worth
Equivalent to days that are important
(Two) days worth
financial resources provided to make some project possible
financial backing
happening very quickly:
Fast-pased
The group conducts training workshops in theatre arts, playwriting contests, indigenous theatre material compilations and theatre presentations.
playwriting
​<br />
Utilería en las obras de teatro
prop
Having a youthful outlook, especially in spite of one's age. For example, She loves carnivals and fairs; she's a grandmother but she's young at heart.
young at heart (Idiom)
a container with glass sides in which valuable or important objects are kept so that they can be looked at without being touched, damaged, or stolen
showcase
the system of sharing the profits that a company makes between all the people who work for it
Profit-sharing
​to fry small pieces of meat, vegetables, etc. quickly while mixing them around:
stir-fry
a type of food consisting usually of meat or fish and vegetables cooked slowly in a small amount of liquid:<br />
Cocinar en agua
Stew
the quality of behaving mentally and emotionally like an adult
Maturity
to do whatever is necessary to stay level or equal with someone or something:
to Keep up with demand
(phrasal verb)
The total cost associated with delivering goods or services to customers.
Marketing costs
not harmful to the environment:
Environmentally friendly
used to describe an activity that is organized and takes place locally:
Community-based
That it is a success in the market
commercially successful
an amount of something that can be held in one hand:
A handful
a small amount of something, especially liquid food, that is added to something else:
A dash
left temporarily with a person in exchange for an amount of money that must be paid back after a limited time to prevent the thing from being sold): Algo empeñado
Hock
to produce or provide something official:
Issue
to not be loyal to your country or a person, often by doing something harmful such as helping their enemies:
Betray
something that encourages a person to do something:
Incentive
official help given to a person or organization in the form of money, loans, reduced taxes, etc.:
Financial Assistance
To show disapproval or a low opinion of something
Sniff at something
someone or something that is equal to or as important as the person or thing being mentioned:
The likes of someone/something
Extremely large<br />
Astronómica mente grande y vasto
Astronomical Rate
an amount of money that is given back to you, especially because you are not happy with a product or service that you have bought:
Refund
To stop working in order to do something else
Have or take time/ a day/ a month off
the fact of putting a word or phrase that does not normally come at the beginning of a sentence at the beginning, in order to emphasize it
Fronting
to make something stronger:
reinforce
to argue that a statement or claim is not true:
rebut
the top surface of the upper part of the legs of a person who is sitting down:<br />
Parte del cuerpo donde uno pone el PC cuando está sentado
Lap
the skill with which something was made or done:
Workmanship

a soldier who guards a place, usually by standing at its entrance:
Sentry
it a company that is more successful than any other company at selling the product:
Corner the market
Latin phrase meaning "in the year of the Lord", the full form of the abbreviation AD, which is used when referring to a year after Jesus Christ was born
Anno Domini
to enter a place:<br />
Poner pie en algún lugar
set foot in (some place)
the act of killing a something in large numbers, or reducing something severely:
Decimation

a long pole made of wood, plastic, etc. with a line attached to it and a hook at the end of the line, used for catching fish
Fishing rod
especially of a disease or a condition, regularly found and very common among a particular group or in a particular area:
Endemic
you become interested in it and spendtime doing it, either as a hobby or as acareer.
to take up (an activity ) phrasal verb
the job or process of listening to someone and giving that person adviceabout their problems:
Counselling
a period of time when you eat no food:
To fast
 is a treatment that is intendedto remove poisonous or harmfulsubstances from your body.<br />
<br />
Overhau<br />
<br />
Detox programme
a form of exercise involving slowmovements of body, originally done in China
t'ai chi
to take action to do something,especially to solve a problem
to deal with
to take action to do something, especially to solve a problem
to deal with
light amplification by stimulated by emission of radiation
L.A.S.E.R
Laser treatment
a disciplinary facility or program in which young offenders are forced to participate in a rigidly structured routine
Boot-camp style
 a person who does not eat meat for health or religious reasons or because they want to avoid being cruel to animals:
Vegetarian
a person who does not eat or use any animal products, such as meat, fish, eggs, cheese, or leather:
Vegan
a person from an ancient culture who lives in a city, town, cave, etc.
Indigenous-dwellers
​especially of a disease or a condition, regularly found and very common among a particular group or in a particular area:
Endemic
a list of things provided or work done together with their cost, for payment at a later time (factura)
Invoice
to (cause to) move up and down and/or from side to side with small, quick movements: to move a flag
Wiggling
easily deceived or tricked, and too willing to believe everything that other people say:
gullible
to say that someone has done something illegal or wrong without giving proof:
Alleged
to start doing something regularly as a habit, job, or interest
Taking up ( an activity)
To take up (phrasal verb)
To give something away
to stop thinking or believing something
To give up (Phrasal verb)
to seem to see, hear, feel, or smell something that does not exist, usually because you are ill or have taken a drug:
Hallucinate
an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present.
Hallucination
Traer beneficios
To bring benefits
the ability to keep doing something difficult, unpleasant, or painful for a long time:
Endurance
become fatter (or thinner).
You're putting on weight
to put on or (lose) weight
To steadily put on weight
​a man whose wife or husband has died and who has not married again
Widower
Widow
​a drink, sometimes an alcoholic drink, that someone has just before going to bed
Nightcap
Do it yourself (Acronym)
DIY
to cause a baby or young animal to stop feeding on its mother's milk and to start eating other food, especially solid food, instead: (Destetar)
Wean
an exciting entertainment in an amusement park, like a fast train that goes up and down very steep slopes and around very sudden bends
Roller-coaster
causing a feeling of extreme fear:
Blood-curding
bloodcurdling
to make your feelings and emotions obvious rather than hiding them
To wear your heart on your sleeve
to do or say something that makes you feel embarrassed<br />
Hacer el oso
To make a faux pas<br />
To drop a brick<br />
To drop a clanger
Inventar algo
The make up (somethig)
not eating enough food to continue to be in good health:
Undernourished
a long bar with a weight on each end that you lift up and down to make your arm and shoulder muscles stronger
Barbell
Doblar la rodilla y levantarla
Knee bending
Tonificar (tus músculos)
To tune up (Your muscles)
make or become stronger or more intense. ,(musculatura )
To build (your muscles)
the rate at which metabolism occurs in a living organism.
Metabolic rate
a level or situation that you intend to achieve:
Target
Goal
Objective
Aim
Un objetivo que puedes lograr y que es lógico en ejercicio
Manageable target
a promise that you make to yourself to start doing something good or stop doing something bad on the first day of the year:
New Year's resolutions
fat:
Overweight
extremely fat in a way that is dangerous for health:
Obese
No estar en el peso ideal
Unfit
A peculiar way
A funny way
Ejercicios de tobillo ejercicio
Ankle strengthening exercises
the way in which someone usually holds their shoulders, neck, and back, or a particular position in which someone stands, sits, etc.:
Posture
feeling less interested in and enthusiastic about your work:
Demotivated
Engordarse
To put on weight (Phrasal Verb)
Estar metido en la oficina
Stuck in an office
to exercise in order to improve the strength or appearance of your body:
To calculate
To work out
to interest or attract someone:
Appeal
<br />
Configurar (Una aplicación)
Set ( The app)
To analyze deeply
Scan (the bar code)
Barcode
to contents of food and the impact of constituents on body. It relates to carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals, additives, enzymes, vitamins, sugar intake, cholesterol, fat and salt intake
Nutritional value
Nutritional information
one of several substances, such as sugar or starch, that provide the body with energy, or foods containing these substances such as bread, potatoes, pasta, and rice
Carbohydrates
to work to earn money or encourage donations for the benefit of someone, something, or doing something
To raise money
From 0
From scratch (Running)
a place where young children and babies are taken care of while their parents are at work:
Nusery
you do it regularly:
Religiously
an increase, especially one that is gradual:
To accumulate
To build up
extremely tiring and difficult, and demanding great effort and determination:
Gruelling
whatever happens:
You do it because you know you have to do it
come rain or shine
Gastroenteritis
A bad Stomach bug
to disappoint someone by failing to do what you agreed to do or were expected to do:
To let somebody down
a system of giving money, food, or help free to those who are in need because they are ill, poor, or have no home, or any organization that has the purpose of providing money or helping in this way:
Charity
To remember something
To look back on something
To make that you appear in the newspaper
To make headlines
A talk
chinwag
a painful swelling on the first joint of the big toe
Bunion
To lie on something
To crash on
physical activity that you do to make your body strong and healthy:
You are exercising
the physical and/or mental strength to do something that might be difficult and will take a long time:<br />
<br />
the ability to sustain prolonged physical or mental effort.
Stamina
to do something in a way that is too extreme:
Overdo (it)
to begin to do something in business or a job, or to begin your working life in a particular way:
To start out
a short bar with a weight on each end that you lift up and down to make your arm and shoulder muscles stronger
Dumbbell
a long bar with a weight on each end that you lift up and down to make your arm and shoulder muscles stronger
Barbell
proteina (bebida)
Protein shake
Aminoácidos
BCCA'S
needing or using a lot of physical or mental effort or energy:
Strenuous
polite expression for an old person:
Senior citizen
likely to suffer from an illness or show a particular negative characteristic:
Prone
​to search everywhere for something, sometimes leaving a place very untidy:

to (cause something to) change completely and in a bad way:
To be turned upside down
it can be achieved or performed:
doable
not expensive:
Affordable
Algo que es quitado de ti
To be taken away from you
Don't ignore
Don't take it out
strongly felt and sincere:
Heartfelt
to become more relaxed and less serious:
To lighten up
a person trained to care for the sick or infirm, especially in a hospital.
2 uk a place where young children and babies are taken care of while their parents are at work:
To nurse
Nursery
If a situation or decision comes down to something, that is the thing that influences it most<br />
Todo se trata de/Al final todo se resume en
Comes down to
A product that is intended to be thrown away after use:
Disposable
Transparent
See-though (Adjective)
sleeping deeply; "it would be cruel to wake him; he's sound asleep"
Fast asleep
completely naked.
Stark naked
you're happy and at peace.
Blissfully happy
Perfectly Clean
Spotlessly clean
without any imperfections
Absolutely flawless
to think calm thoughts in order to relax or as a religious activity:
Meditation
the activity of writing stories, poetry, etc., or the stories, poems, etc. that are written:
creative writing
a running race of slightly over 26 miles (42.195 kilometres):
marathon
​a treatment for pain or illness in which thin needles are positioned just under the surface of the skin at special points around the body:
Acupuncture
any medical operation that is intended to improve a person's appearance rather than their health
Cosmetic Surgery
A sport that is too risky
High-risk sport
training that makes people more willing to obey or more able to control themselves, often in the form of rules, and punishments if these are broken, or the behaviour produced by this training:
discipline
the use of hypnosis to treat emotional problems
Hypnotherapy
the quality that involves deep feelings and beliefs of a religious nature, rather than the physical parts of life
Spirituality
Trabajo Voluntario
Voluntary work
belief and confidence in your own ability and value:
self-steem
to increase the range of one's knowledge, understanding, or experience<br />
Abrirle la mente a alguien
broaden one's horizons
<br />
Estar abrumado
Overwhelmed
slightly worried or uncomfortable about a particular situation:
Uneasy
not producing very much
unproductive
someone whose job is to help you become stronger and healthier by deciding which exercises you should do and showing you how to do them:
Personal trainer
Tonificar los músculos
To tone up (your muscles)
used to encourage someone to continue doing something:
to keep it up (phrasal verb)
expensive
decorative or complicated:
Fancy
Estar bien fitness
overall fitness
Extremely fit,
super-fit
used to show approval for someone's success or good luck:
good for you
thin in an attractive and healthy way:
Trim
wishing you had what another person has:
Envious
to spend a particular amount of time doing something, or to make a particular amount of effort in order to do something
to put into (Phrasal Verb)
to become interested in an activity or subject, or start being involved in an activity:
to get into sth(phrasal verb)
To attempt to accumulate some amount of money, either through work or donation, in order to fund someone or something.
raise money for (someone or something)
to take someone or something, esp. by car, to a particular place:
To Drop someone/something off
(Phrasal verb)
in a careful way so that every part of something is looked at or considered to make certain it is correct or safe:
rigorously
extremely tiring and difficult, and demanding great effort and determination:
Gruelling
someone who treats people using physiotherapy
Physiotherapist
To sleep in (another way=
to crash on (the sofa)
To be a sympathetic listener
someone who is willing to listen to your problems and give you sympathy, emotional support, and encouragement:
To be a shoulder to cry on
to manage to stop yourself from smiling or laughing:
Stop yourself from laughing
To keep a straight face
very frightening:<br />
Body idiom
Hair-raising
to ignore something that you know is wrong:
Pretend not to notice
Turn a blind eye to something
<br />
Treat something with contempt<br />
Mirar cómo si algo no te gustará o te disgustara y con desdén
Turn your nose up at something
(of food) having a very good appearance or smell that makes you want to eat
Delicious or tasty
Mouth-watering
to be very busy:
Totally overwhelmed by work
Up to your neck
to succeed in understanding something difficult or strange:
Get your head round something
causing great sympathy or sadness:
extremely sad and moving
Heart-rending
To feel very nervous before you do something
Have butterflies in your stomach
To win easily
Win hands down
Very clumsy
All fingers and thumbs
Make fun of somebody (Body idiom)<br />
Pull someone's leg
Say something that upsets somebody
Put your foot in it
to (cause something to) change completely and in a bad way:
turn (sth) upside down
to make someone disappointed by not doing something that they are expecting you to do
To let down (phrasal verb)
to treat someone badly because you are upset or angry, even if they have done nothing wrong:<br />
Desquitarse con alguien
take something out on someone
to use or enjoy something as much as possible:
to make the most of something
Todo se trata de/Al final todo se resume en
to come down <br />
comes down
Felices hasta la muerte
Cherish the dead
Puro
sheer
Anterior
Previous/former
a group of people or things arranged in a row:
To line
has legs that curve out at the knees
Bow-legged
their knees bend towards each other.
Knock-kneed
their feet in towards each other when they walk.
Pigeon-toed
does not appear to be easily hurt by criticism:
Thick-skinned
thinking that you are more important or more intelligent than you really are:
Big-headed
far from places where many people live or usually go:
Out of the way
​<br />
<br />
a house or other building and the land on which it is built:<br />
<br />
premises
​<br />
<br />
a house or other building and the land on which it is built:<br />
<br />
premises
inform someone in advance of a possible danger, problem, or other unpleasant situation.
To warn
To invade a place
Overrun
 is a group of youth who gather to participate in criminal behaviour with the purpose of gaining power, recognition and control. 
Teenage gangs
1 to persuade someone to work for a company or become a new member of an organization, especially the army:
to recruit
jump or spring a long way, to a great height, or with great force.
To leap in
If something dangerous orunpleasant breaks out, it suddenly starts:<br />
When something bad begins
To break out
Tumbar a alguien al piso, estar encima de él y golpearlo
To pin to the ground ( Collocation)
a person who attacks another person:<br />
Assailant<br />
Attacker
To follow and find a person on the internet
To Track down
​<br />
<br />
a piece of paper that can be used to pay forparticular goods or services or that allowsyou to pay less than the usual price for them<br />
<br />
$50 shopping voucher
an area of northern England that includes the counties (= areas with their own local government) of North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, East Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire:
Yorkshire
done in a hurried way and in a state of excitement or confusion:
Frenetico
Frantically
physical, especially violent, strength, or power:
Forzar abrir una puerta
To force (the door open)
begin to burn.
To catch fire
Open by breaking
To break open
Open by kick
To kick open
To withdraw or remove someone (from something). In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "pull" and "out."
To pull someone out
a state in which a person is unconscious and cannot be woken, caused by damage to the brain after an accident or illness:
Coma
a piece of equipment made of a large piece of special cloth that is fastened to a person or thing that is dropped from an aircraft, in order to make him, her, or it fall slowly and safely to the ground
Parachute
to take hold of something or someone suddenly and roughly:
agarrar la oporunidad
To grab ( the opportunity)
used to say that a decision, action, etc. is sudden and done without any planning:
On the spur of the moment (reaction)
the first public performance of a film, play or piece of music.
Premiere
to stand or walk on your toes in order to make yourself taller or in order to walk very quietly
Tiptoe
using the most modern and recently developed methods, materials or knowledge
State-of-the-art
to pour something from one place or container into another
Tip out (phrasal verb)
not as good or important as some people think or say
Overrated
better than people think or say
Underrated
dressed in clothes that are too formal for the occasion
Overdressed
dressed in clothes that are too informal for a particular occasion
Underdressed
extremely attractive or beautiful
Stunning
very exciting, shocking or strange
Mind-blowing (informal)
to have great confidence in how good or effective something is
Swear by (phrasal verb informal)
a system of medicine in which a disease is treated by giving extremely small amounts of a substance that causes the disease
Homeopathy