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to get work done by making a contract with
another company to do it, often in another
4 country, rather than in your The candidate
talks about working-class issues, particularly
about jobs being outsourced overseas.
to join together, or to be joined together, to
make a larger company, organization,
5 department, etc . The two banks denied
rumours that they aim to merge.
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is a part-time member of your executive team
1 who examines your business through a
financial lens and provides the strategic insight
you need to make decisions.
Audit or financial audit is a systematic process
2 of reviewing the annual accounts of a legal
person in order to verify that they reflect the
true image of the same.
something that someone buys, often to add to
a collection of things: recent acquisition I like
3 your earrings - are they a recent acquisition?
(= Did you get them recently?)