Top-10 Resources for Business Idioms & Phrasal Verbs (ESL)

7ESL 38 Essential Business Phrasal Verbs

Description:

7ESL 38 Essential Business Phrasal Verbs presents thirty-eight phrasal verbs used in meetings, emails, presentations and negotiations, published by 7ESL, an English learning site. Each entry gives pronunciation, a definition, a workplace example and synonyms, with a grammar label marking it transitive or intransitive, separable or inseparable. A workplace dialogue, a section on common mistakes and a five-question quiz follow the list.

Limits of the Free Tier Plan: Reading the full lesson, the thirty-eight entries, the dialogue and the grammar notes costs nothing and needs no account. The practice quiz can be answered on the page; saving quiz scores and experience points requires a free account, and a paid Pro plan adds a personal study plan and a record of every mistake.

Access: Free Tier Level: Intermediate (B1-B2) Format: Article / Lesson/Tutorial / Quiz/Test / Reference Written for: Business English (ESL) English Variant: Mixed

How It Helps Your Business English

What this resource offers:

Thirty-eight business phrasal verbs are listed first as a quick index, then given one by one with pronunciation, meaning, a workplace example sentence and synonyms. Each carries a grammar label: transitive or intransitive, separable or inseparable. A project-management dialogue puts many of them in context, followed by three common mistakes and two grammar notes on word order.

How to use this resource:

Start with the index to see which of the thirty-eight you already know, then read the entries you do not. The grammar label on each one tells you whether you may put the object between the verb and the particle, which is where most errors happen. Read the dialogue to hear the verbs together in one conversation, then answer the five quiz questions to confirm what stayed.

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Last verified — Oct. 14, 2026