Beginner Business English Telephone Communication Listening Practice and Common Dialogue Examples

verb

1. make more firm

e.g. Confirm thy soul in self-control!

2. establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

e.g. his story confirmed my doubts
The evidence supports the defendant

Synonym: corroboratesustainsubstantiatesupportaffirm

3. strengthen or make more firm

e.g. The witnesses confirmed the victim's account

Synonym: reassert

4. administer the rite of confirmation to

e.g. the children were confirmed in their mother's faith

5. support a person for a position

e.g. The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense

adj

1. obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service

e.g. kept a fire extinguisher available
much information is available through computers
available in many colors
the list of available candidates is unusually long

2. convenient for use or disposal

e.g. the house is available after July 1
2000 square feet of usable office space

Synonym: usableuseable

3. not busy
not otherwise committed

e.g. he was not available for comment
he was available and willing to accompany her

Synonym: uncommitted

noun

1. act of expanding in scope
making more widely available

e.g. extension of the program to all in need

2. act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb

3. an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students

Synonym: extension serviceuniversity extension

4. an addition that extends a main building

Synonym: annexannexewing

5. an addition to the length of something

Synonym: elongation

6. an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line

Synonym: telephone extensionextension phone

7. amount or degree or range to which something extends

e.g. the wire has an extension of 50 feet

Synonym: lengthinessprolongation

8. the ability to raise the working leg high in the air

e.g. the dancer was praised for her uncanny extension
good extension comes from a combination of training and native ability

9. the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
the class of objects that an expression refers to

e.g. the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos

Synonym: referencedenotation

10. the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions

Synonym: propagation

11. a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters
the optional second part of a PC computer filename

e.g. most applications provide extensions for the files they create
most BASIC files use the filename extension .BAS

Synonym: filename extensionfile name extension

12. a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt

e.g. they applied for an extension of the loan