People in relationship:
• client (clients)
NOUN - A client
of a professional person or organization is a person that receives a service
from them in return for payment.
■ a
solicitor and his client
■ The
company requires clients to pay substantial fees in advance.
• colleague (colleagues)
NOUN - Your colleagues
are the people you work with, especially in a professional job.
■ Female
academics are still paid less than their male colleagues.
■ In
the corporate world, the best sources of business are your former colleagues.
• employer (employers)
NOUN - Your employer
is the person or organization that you work for.
■ employers
who hire illegal workers
■ The
telephone company is the country's largest employer.
• parent (parents)
NOUN - Your parents
are your mother and father.
■ Children
need their parents.
■ When
you become a parent the things you once cared about seem to have less value.
• sibling (siblings)
NOUN - Your siblings are your brothers and sisters. [FORMAL]
■ Some
studies have found that children are more friendly to younger siblings of the
same sex.
■ Sibling
rivalry often causes parents anxieties.
• spouse (spouses)
NOUN - Someone’s
spouse is the person they are married to.
■ Husbands
and wives do not have to pay any inheritance tax when their spouse dies.
Describing people:
• autonomous
ADJECTIVE - An
autonomous person makes their own decisions rather than being influenced
by someone else
■ They
proudly declared themselves part of a new autonomous province.
■ the
liberal idea of the autonomous individual
• consistent
ADJECTIVE - Someone
who is consistent always behaves in the same way, has the same attitudes
towards people or things, or achieves the same level of success in something.
■ Becker
has never been the most consistent of players anyway.
■ his
consistent support of free trade
■ a
consistent character with a major thematic function
• conventional
ADJECTIVE -
Someone who is conventional has behaviour and opinions that are ordinary
and normal.
■ a
respectable married woman with conventional opinions
■ this
close, fairly conventional English family
• co-operative also cooperative
ADJECTIVE - If
you say that someone is co-operative, you mean that they do what you ask
them without complaining or arguing.
■ The
president said the visit would develop friendly and co-operative relations between
the two countries.
■ a
contented and co-operative workforce
• efficient
ADJECTIVE - If
something or someone is efficient, they are able to do tasks successfully,
without wasting time or energy.
■ With
today’s more efficient contraception women can plan their families and careers.
■ Technological
advances allow more efficient use of labour.
■ an
efficient way of testing thousands of compounds
• flexible
ADJECTIVE - Something
or someone that is flexible is able to change easily and adapt to
different conditions and circumstances.
■ more
flexible arrangements to allow access to services after normal working hours
■ We encourage flexible working.
• idealistic
ADJECTIVE - If you describe someone as idealistic, you
mean that they have ideals, and base their behaviour on these ideals, even if
this may be impractical.
■ Idealistic
young people died for the cause.
■ an
over-simplistic and idealistic vision of family dynamics
• tolerant
ADJECTIVE -
If you describe someone as tolerant, you approve of the fact that they allow
other people to say and do as they like, even if they do not agree with or like
it.
■ [+of]
They need to be tolerant of different points of view.
■ Other
changes include more tolerant attitudes to unmarried couples having children.
• vulnerable
ADJECTIVE -
Someone who is vulnerable is weak and without protection, with the result
that they are easily hurt physically or emotionally.
■ Old
people are particularly vulnerable members of our society.
