Idiom Exercise 2 - Negotiations and Business

1. The other negotiating team our wish to postpone the meeting until tomorrow. ::hint:: (to reject something)

2. We know that we must if we want to complete the negotiations. ::hint:: (to compromise during a negotiation)

3. We an agreement to build the staff room as quickly as possible. ::hint:: (to make certain or sure)

4. The negotiations over the issue of part-time workers. ::hint:: (to slow down and make no progress)

5. Although we appeared weak during the negotiations we had some new information to use as our . ::hint:: (something that is kept back to be used to win success if nothing else works)

6. I tried not to during the negotiation. ::hint:: (to offer too much during a negotiation)

7. The after the company made their final offer. ::hint:: (it is the decision of another person or group to do something)

8. We decided to and try and sell our products quickly. ::hint:: (to lower the price of one's product)

9. The sales manager received a when he was forced to give up his former position. ::hint:: (treatment that is not fair)

10. We would like to the meeting early tomorrow. ::hint:: (to end, to finish, to stop)

11. The company to buy the new product. ::hint:: (sign a contract)

12. The talks to buy the new computers have and it will be difficult to start them again. ::hint:: (to arrive at a position where no progress is being made)

13. We decided to because we wanted to finish the negotiations quickly. ::hint:: (to make someone do something that they do not want to do at that time)

14. I tried to the subject of sales commissions during the meeting. ::hint:: (to begin a discussion about something, to mention something)

15. The salesman did not say that no products were available but we could and we knew that there were none available. ::hint:: (to understand the meaning of something by guessing what is not said)

16. I could not understand what the other negotiators in the meeting were . ::hint:: (to mean something, to want to say something)

17. The other negotiating team was very aggressive but we and bargained hard. ::hint:: (to maintain and defend one's position)

18. We were able to send the documents to the lawyer . ::hint:: (at the very last moment)

19. We must and finish our work quickly. ::hint:: (to start working or doing the business at hand)

20. The company tried very hard to with the workers. ::hint:: (to achieve a compromise with someone)

21. Our manager of the other side when he became angry during the meeting. ::hint:: (to do something that another person can use against you)

22. The sales manager and it is difficult to negotiate with him. ::hint:: (to bargain hard and try to make an agreement to one's advantage)

23. We spent the morning trying to the problem with the computer supplier. ::hint:: (to find the most important facts or central meaning of something)

24. The salary issue was a in the negotiations between the company and the union. ::hint:: (something that prevents or obstructs progress)

25. The property developer of the plan to build the new apartment building. ::hint:: (to get out of an agreement, to fail to keep a promise)

26. I do not think that the opposite side about where the negotiations are heading. ::hint:: (to understand clearly what someone means)

27. The government on their threat to give less money to the school district. ::hint:: (to yield in one's position during negotiations, to not continue with a threat to do something)

28. We were unable to delaying the meeting until next week. ::hint:: (to get someone to agree to something, to persuade someone to do something)

29. We were unable to a deal to buy the new computer system for our company. ::hint:: (to achieve something)

30. We had to work hard but we were finally able to . ::hint:: (to end a negotiation successfully)

31. The contract for the new insurance policy is . ::hint:: (to be certain)

32. The lawyers a contract for the new housing development on the government land. ::hint:: (to put something in writing)

33. The sales manager's proposal at the meeting. ::hint:: (to fail to generate a positive response)