Business Verbs Collocations List

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Below are some common business verbs along with their collocations.

accept change convince

gladly accept change dramatically try to convince
reluctantly accept change considerably manage to convince
be glad/happy to accept change radically hard to convince
unable to accept change significantly somehow convince
widely accepted gradually change
slowly change coordinate
admit change from (something) carefully coordinate
freely admit change into (something) coordinate with (someone)
refuse to admit
prepared to admit charge count
admit to (something) charge a fee do a count
charge for (something) at the latest count
advertise be free to charge count on (someone) idiomatic
advertise heavily have a right to charge expression
advertise nationally
advertise a product check decide
regularly check finally decide
afford carefully check decide on (something)
easily afford thoroughly check cant decide/unable to decide
barely afford check for (something) couldnt decide
can/cant afford be worth checking decide for yourself
check to see if/whether to be decided
approve
approve of (something) complain decrease
formally approve cant complain decrease dramatically
officially approve complain about (something) decrease significantly
complain to (someone) decrease slightly
authorize decrease gradually
authorize + someone complete decrease rapidly
successfully complete decrease in size/number
avoid complete on time
avoid altogether complete on schedule deliver
narrowly avoid deliver free of charge
avoid at all costs confirm deliver by hand
impossible to avoid officially confirm have something delivered
try to avoid be able/unable to confirm
develop
borrow consider develop a strategy
borrow heavily carefully consider develop a plan
borrow from (someone) seriously consider
borrow money consider (someone) for dismiss
(something, e.g. a position, quickly dismiss
calculate promotion, etc.) wrongfully dismiss
carefully calculate dismiss from
accurately calculate control
carefully control distribute
cancel tightly control distribute evenly/unevenly
cancel an order properly control distribute among
cancel a shipment distribute to
cancel a meeting
divide improve manage
evenly divide considerably improve successfully manage
divide into (parts, groups, etc.) dramatically improve difficult to manage
divide among greatly improve manage without
continue to improve learn how to manage
employ strive to improve be easy to manage
be fully employed much improved
be gainfully employed measure
be regularly employed increase accurately measure
be temporarily employed significantly increase carefully measure
be permanently employed slightly increase be difficult/hard to measure
be expected to increase be impossible to measure
encourage be likely to increase measure by
strongly encourage increase by (percentage, number, measure in terms of
try to encourage etc.)
increase in size/number/price mention
establish casually mention
attempt to establish inform mention in passing
try to establish politely inform barely/hardly mention
become established be pleased to inform fail to mention
regret to inform forget to mention
estimate inform (someone) about mention (something) to
accurately estimate inform (someone) of (someone)
be hard/difficult to estimate
estimate (something) at install obtain
properly install easily obtain
exchange safely install unlawfully obtain
freely exchange easily install be able/unable to obtain
exchange (something) for be easy/simple to install easy to obtain
(something) difficult to obtain
exchange money invest impossible to obtain
exchange ideas heavily invest obtain (something) from
carefully invest (someone)
extend wisely invest
extend an invitation invest in organize
extend an offer effectively organize
extend fromto join efficiently organize
want to join badly/poorly organized
fund refuse to join well organized
well funded be allowed to join organized according to
fully funded join forces organized into (groups, teams,
come and join (someone) etc.)
handle an invitation to join
handle with care owe
properly handle lower owe money
be unable to handle lower a price owe (someone) an apology
be designed to handle lower expectations owe taxes
be equipped to handle lower standards
be difficult to handle own
learn how to handle maintain owned by (someone)
have to/need to maintain privately owned
difficult to maintain publicly owned
able to maintain jointly owned
properly maintained own a business
own stock
own shares
participate purchase reply
actively participate agree to purchase reply directly
be able to participate purchase (something) for (price) reply promptly
be encouraged to participate purchase (something) from reply immediately
participate in (something) (person) reply to (someone)

plan raise resign

carefully plan raise taxes formally resign
plan on (something) raise money be forced to resign
plan ahead raise funds resign as (position)
plan in advance raise eyebrows resign from (job, position, etc.)
go as planned raise expectations
respond
present receive respond immediately
clearly present gratefully receive respond promptly
present (someone) as entitled to receive respond appropriately
well received respond effectively
prevent badly received respond accordingly
be able/unable to prevent unable to respond
prevent (something) from recruit slow to respond
(gerund) actively recruit respond to
aimed at preventing need to recruit (someone/something)
recruit for (something)
process recruit (someone) for return
quickly process (something) return shortly
automatically process newly recruited return safely
process (something) into expected to return
(something) reduce return from (place)
highly processed significantly reduce return (something) to (someone)
drastically reduce
produce gradually reduce succeed
locally produce try to reduce nearly succeed
commercially produce reduce by (percent, number, succeed quite well
produce (something) from etc.) partially succeed
(something) reduce (something) fromto determined to succeed
succeed in (something)
promise refuse
seem to promise adamantly refuse suggest
promise (something) to politely refuse strongly suggest
(someone) cant refuse seem reasonable to suggest
as promised couldnt refuse seem to suggest
cant promise anything May/might I suggest
reject
promote strongly reject vary
actively promote emphatically reject never vary
aggressively promote vote to reject hardly vary
aimed at promoting have the right to reject may/might vary
promote (something) as could vary
remind tend to vary
provide constantly remind vary fromto
kindly provide gently remind
be expected to provide not have to remind (someone)
provide (something) for remind (someone) about
(someone) remind (someone) of
provide (someone) with keep reminding (someone)
(something)