Summary vocabulary part 16

Products and services
English for business

1. Products
NOUN: things NOUN: company or VERB NOUN: activity
country
(manufactured) Maker/producer/ Make/produce/ Production/manufacture/
products/goods manufacturer manufacture manufacturing
(agricultural) Producer Produce Manufacture/production/
produce/products manufacturing
Services Provider Provide Provision
 A product = can be: something natural, something made to be sold or a service
 Produce = normally refers to agricultural products such as crops or fruit

2. Mass production
Note

 Labour-intensive: BrE
 Labor-intensive: AmE
 Plant can be: a factory or works

Vocabulary

 Workshops
 Hand-made
 Craft industry
 Labour-intensive
 A(n) assembly or production line
 Manufacturing plant
 Churn them out
 Industrial robots
 Cost-effective

3. Capacity and output
Note

 Overcapacity, excess capacity, spare capacity or surplus capacity

Vocabulary

 Output
 Productivity
 Capacity
 Working at full capacity
 Overproduction
 Surplus or glut = if far too many things are produced
 Shortage