Prefixes - BE 4 - Unit 4 Success

Meaning of Prefixes

Over = too much

Overspend, overestimate, oversupply

The name change is an indication of their overconfidence.

Underfunding and overstaffing are the quickest way to failure.

Out = better / more than

Out-win, outbid, outclass

The company continuous to outperform all its rivals.

Outselling your rivals is the best indicator of success.

We have been outselling our competitor for the past 5 years.

Miss = badly

Mismanage, misjudge, miscalculate

Journalists have been misinformed.

Mismanagement is the biggest cause of business failure.

Ultra = extremely

Ultra-cautious, ultramodern, ultra-big

We are an ultramodern company.

Ex = former

Ex-boss, ex-director, ex-employee

His ex- business partner was not available for comment.

De = opposite

Demerge, denationalize, deregulate

His contributions have been devalued in recent press reports.

Co = with

Co-producer, coworker, coauthor

Co-founder and CEO released a statement.

Under = too little

Underperform, underrate, undercharge

Its achievements have been underestimated in the past.

Underfunding and overstaffing are the quickest way to failure.

Undercutting the competition is a dangerous business strategy.

Re = again

Re-launch, reengineer, relocate

He renamed itself Chitchat Media.

Rebranding is often pointless exercise.

Several sales staff were underperformed last year and didn’t meet their targets.

Smith and Tina were the two coworker of the report.

We will re-launch our product, as soon as we finished the modifications.

Sales were very disappointing. We miscalculated the number of the people who would buy our product in Asia.

Because the company has been underperformed for years, we are close to bankruptcy.

It was an expensive acquisition. They had to demerge their rivals to take over the company.

Our ultramodern factory has state-of-the-art machinery.

My ex-boss was impossible to work with, so I left the company.

There is much more competition in deregulated financial markets.

Arenta’s performance out classed that of its US rival saw its shares slide after a sharp drop in interm earnings.

A number of Finnish companies want to relocate to neighboring Estonia to benefit from cheaper costs and wages.

Our company had badly misjudged demand, which led to a huge inventory build-up.

Electronic exports under performed in April, growing by only 6.6 percent against 16.4 percent in march.

As soon as the Mexican airline industry was deregulated, budget airlines scrambled for a piece of that potentially massive market.

The over supply of new homes is a problem, as observers forecast insufficient demand from domestic and overseas buyers for the 800,000 residences started last year.

Two or three decades ago, many people wrongly dismissed emerging markets as third world; today’s all too common error is to under rate the leading companies from these markets.

The national railway company was fiercely criticised as mismanage and grossly inefficient.

A lot of people over spend simply because they have access to very cheap credit.

They are going to re-launch the brand in the hope that it will increase sales.

Criticized

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It is expected that group will outstrip its rivals IBSoft and Karotel.

The CEO and four other board members joined forces to outvote the four non-executive directors.

There are now as many men as women in our department, but in the past males outnumbered females three to one.

Danicom  claims never to be undersold, but we found two companies which sell computers at a lower price.

American express said it was re-engineering its global electronic system for processing credit-card transactions.

The shop assistant made a mistake and undercharged me by $10.

Cutting the link between subsidy and output reduces the incentive for farmers to overproduce.

The manufacturer decided to re-launch Energol as a health drink.

Last year we overspent by 17%.

The government denationalized the water industry and sold it to regional operators.

We finished building our ultra-modern offices earlier this year.

The sales team under performed last year. We simply have to sell more, or we are going to have serious problems.

The government is going to deregulate the industry next year.

We overspent by about $100,000 last quarter, so we need to save money this quarter.

We co-taught a training session last month. He talked about sales, and I talked about marketing.

We are going to rename the product so it is more appealing to the new market.

I miss-judged him. I thought he was doing a terrible job, but this has been our most successful year.

With its fine workmanship and expensive materials, this range of furniture out-classes the competition.

The ex-director predicted the company would fail when he left, but it didn’t.

We have a multi-national company, with staff from over 50 different countries.