F2F Class Notes (Nemo)

Vocabulary

canteen (n): 1- a place in a factory, office, etc. where food and meals are sold, often at a lower than usual price.
E.g.: There’s a staff canteen for everyone and there’s a smarter restaurant for the management.
E.g.: I often see the boss eating his lunch by himself in the canteen.

shareholder (n): 1-a person who owns shares in a company and therefore gets part of the company’s profits and the right to vote on how the company is controlled:
E.g.: Shareholders will be voting on the proposed merger of the companies next week.

merger (n): 1-an occasion when two or more companies join together to make one larger company:
E.g.: She’s an attorney who advises companies about mergers and takeovers.

merge (v): 1- to combine or join together, or to cause things to do this:
E.g.: They decided to merge the two companies into one.
E.g.: The country’s two biggest banks are planning to merge.

attorney (n): 1- a lawyer.
E.g.: They paid a high-powered attorney to plead their case.
E.g.: She was asked to take the witness stand and was then cross-examined by the state attorney.

cross-examine (v): 1-to ask detailed questions of someone, especially a witness in a trial, in order to discover if they have been telling the truth
E.g.: She was asked to take the witness stand and was then cross-examined by the state attorney.

mercy (n): 1- kindness that makes you forgive someone, usually someone that you have authority over:
E.g.: She appealed to the judge to have mercy on her husband.
E.g.: The prisoners pleaded for mercy.

be at the mercy of sb/sth- to be in a situation where someone or something has complete power over you:
E.g.: Poor people are increasingly at the mercy of money-lenders.

appeal (n): 1-a request to the public for money, information, or help:
E.g.: The appeal for people to donate blood was very successful.

judge (n): 1- a person who is in charge of a trial in a court and decides how a person who is guilty of a crime should be punished, or who makes decisions on legal matters:
E.g.: The judge reminded the witness that she was under oath.
E.g.: The judge will pronounce sentence on the defendant this afternoon.

oath (n): 1-a promise, especially that you will tell the truth in a law court:
E.g.: Medieval knights took an oath of allegiance/loyalty to their lord.
E.g.: The witness placed her hand on the Bible and took the oath (= promised to tell the truth).

jury (n): 1-a group of people who have been chosen to listen to all the facts in a trial in a law court and to decide if a person is guilty or not guilty, or if a claim has been proved:
E.g.: Not surprisingly, the jury found them both guilty.