C1+ Vocabulary: Business buzzwords

I'm under a lot of pressure to finish this report by the end of .....

I have an idea that I'd like to ......

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To float an idea is a way to see if someone is interested in it, or in agreement with you, without any negative consequences should they want to ‘pop’ it.

How about we focus on the core competencies of our team and make sure we are leveraging our collective ...... to maximize efficiency?

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The term wheelhouse has been adopted from boating. It is used to describe someone's speciality or key skill set. It can also be used to describe the specialist focus of a company.

Oh, Ted's still boiling the ...... trying to find and reassemble that document from the shredded bin.

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Boil the ocean is a term used to indicate that a task is particularly difficult, perhaps even impossible.

Our company encourages ..... thinking in order to encourage innovation and come up with new ideas.

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Blue-sky thinking refers to creative ideas that are not limited by current thinking or beliefs

Let's schedule an ideas ...... to get everyone's input and come up with some fresh perspectives.

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I'd like to ..... up a potential issue with the project timeline that we need to address.

I think it's important for us to stay within our ... and not take on tasks outside of our area of expertise.

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In order to succeed, we need to ....... up our marketing efforts and reach a wider audience.

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We need to find ways to move the ..... on our sales numbers if we want to meet our targets.

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