It's time we are focusing on five new phrasal verbs related to work, business and just kind of from
more formal situations, the first one we're starting with here is to carry out something.
Does anyone know what this means if you do?
Good job to carry something out, first of all, it means like to start doing a task to to do something,
basically to do something, it can mean to start doing it.
Like I'm going to carry out the task this afternoon and hopefully I will finish before noon.
But it can also mean to accomplish, to accomplish or finish.
So I carried out the task to conduct something I love that I had.
Exactly.
And when you conduct something, it also has the meaning of possibly conducting it now.
So you're in the process of doing it, but it can also mean that you finished it.
So if you if you want the meaning of finishing, we usually use the past tense.
I conducted the meeting.
It means I organized and completed the meeting or I carried out the project.
The project is done and finish it.
It was in the past.
But if I say I am conducting it or implementing nice, it means happening now defined means to make
something clear.
Yep, exactly.
Exactly, Hala.
All right.
So that is to carry out, if you want, give me some examples and I'll see how you're using it.
But especially with a task we usually carry out tasks just means to do it.
And that set is great vocab to know it has nothing.
You're kind of actually carrying it.
But to carry out talking about work need to accomplish a task.
If you're getting food carry out means going to a restaurant and bringing the food back home to eat.
So food means bring bring the food back home from a restaurant to eat.
OK, now take over.
This can have a few different meanings and business and it depends on the context.
So first of all, I'm going to start here to take over a business means to become basically the owner
or CEO or to to get a majority of the the stock to be a majority stockholder, basically.
But another one related to tasks means to become the leader of an assignment or project so as to take
over something.
So it becomes your responsibility.
It becomes your response ability.
We're carrying out an investigation regarding Mrs. Smith's death.
Excellent.
As I said, I love it.
So let's take over so you can take over something meaning to become like the owner, the CEO or the
executive.
Overtaking, overtaking is different.
Overtaking is more about like the path.
It's more about the process of taking over to overtake also means like to pass someone like that that's
overtaking like in a race.
So a little bit different there.
But good example.
So to take over, I'm taking over this project.
You are not doing a good job as one example, but I take over is the specific term that we use when
we when we describe this process of acquiring or getting a business.
Technology is taking over books.
Excellent example.
So there it's also about kind of authority and leadership in a more abstract way.
A great example now to take on this has a few uses, too.
Let's start here to take on if a business is taking on employees, it means to hire new employees.
So I can say, are you taking on new employees at the moment and are like, no, sorry, we're not taking
on anyone.
We have no resources or we have no need for new employees.
But second, to take on something like a task to take on a task means basically to carry out a task
to to do something, to assume responsibility for a project or assignment.
So maybe you have a meeting with your boss and they say, who wants to take on this task?
It's a very big project.
I will take it on.
I will do it.
I will assume responsibility.
But remember, it also means to start hiring.
If a company or a manager is taking on employees, they are hiring employees.
Kind of the opposite of that is to lay off to lay off employees basically is basically to fire, but
not because you did anything wrong, based usually just because the company is in financial financial
difficulty.
So if a company is starting to layoff, it's basically basically firing employees.
But you didn't do anything bad.
And the government, for example, in the US will give you more help because of that.
So if a company is laying off employees, they're probably losing money in debt.
Need help in some way.
Let's see if you guys can give me some examples about that.
All right.
And then another really good one, our last one to knuckle down, to knuckle down is basically the the
link for this document.
Sandra is in the description, if you want to check it out, to knuckle down means to really I'm trying
to think of another expression we can use here to.
To gear up, no, I think I think this is a way to gear up to to work, to work as as hard as possible
to stop being, like, lazy or basically to to give one hundred and ten, one hundred, ten or even
one hundred, one hundred percent of your your effort, all of your effort to give all of your effort.
So if you knuckle down, you give all of your effort, you are completely focused, giving all of your
effort, determination, focus and energy.
You're giving everything, everything that you can give.
So it's like we don't have much time.
We have to knuckle down, we could say, to knuckle down on something, to knuckle down on something.
So we have to knuckle down on this project, quit lollygagging loud to lollygag is like to be lazy.
I think this is I don't spell this word a lot to lollygag, lollygag, to be lazy, to work hard.
Exactly.
But not just hard, more than hard to knuckle down because it's like you're basically like in a fight,
you're getting scratches.
It's very it's much more intense than just working hard.
Hey, Keala, nice to see you.
So that's to knuckle down to put in all of your effort.
We only have ten more minutes.
We got to knuckle down and finish this project.
Let's do a quick review to carry out.
These can mean two things to just be doing a project or to a finish that's usually with the past tense
to take over for time what a company means to get like the majority stock ownership.
Or it can just mean like to become the owner or the CEO or to become the leader in a project or something
like that.
To take on can mean hiring new employees.
It can also mean to assume responsibility for a project to lay off is basically the opposite to to basically
fire employees, but not because of anything they did just because you don't need them anymore.
Maybe they're being replaced by technology or you're losing money in the company and to knuckle down
to work one hundred percent as hard as possible.
All right.
And to take off.
Hmm.
Let's see.
To take off is different.
It can mean business to take off can mean that a company is doing very well, especially towards the
beginning.
This new company, this new startup, is really taking off.
And of course, for a plane, a plane takes off to.