English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers and Enhanced eBook Vocabulary Reference and Practice 3rd Edition

low-technology 
/
 low-tech industries.
3
Cutting-edge technology is very expensive, so the company has to rely on 
conventional technology.
4
State ownership 
/
 Nationalisation is less popular than it was, but the trend towards 
privatisation has slowed down.
5 
Heavy industry has declined, and now we’re more dependent on light industry.

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English Vocabulary in Use Advanced
 55.2
1 a public-private partnership
2 subsidy
3 inward investment
4 piecework
5 a sweatshop economy
6 to switch production, to relocate
7 retraining, reskilling
8 a multinational (company)
9 a cost-cutting exercise
10 child labour
11 zero hours contract
 55.3
1 Industrial piracy (illegal production of goods using another company’s brand name)
2 industrial espionage (stealing or destroying a rival company’s plans or secrets)
3 Copyright infringement (publishing or copying a book or work of art without the author’s 
permission)
4 Money laundering (passing money illegally earned through the normal banking system without 
being caught)
5 black market (secret, illegal trade)
Unit 56
 56.1
1 satellite communications
2 ergonomics
3 biotechnology
4 digital technology
5 artificial intelligence
6 Bluetooth™
 56.2
1 tablet / iPad 
4 desktop computer
2 interactive TV 
5 e-reader / Kindle
3 laptop 
6 router
 56.3
1 thumbnail (small pictures you can make bigger before downloading them)
2 computer nerd (a rather negative term for a person obsessed with computers and who devotes 
most of their time to them at the expense of a normal social life)
3 techie (this has none of the negative associations that nerd has)
4 app (short for application = special software)
5 screensaver (image that appears on your computer screen if you do not use the computer for a 
certain period of time)
6 footprint
7 icon (small symbol representing the program)
8 trackpad