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1 business
['biznis]1) (occupation; buying and selling: Selling china is my business; The shop does more business at Christmas than at any other time.) starf; verslun, viðskipti2) (a shop, a firm: He owns his own business.) fyrirtæki3) (concern: Make it your business to help him; Let's get down to business (= Let's start the work etc that must be done).) mál, málefni•- businessman
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2 auctioneer
noun (a person who is in charge of selling things at an auction.) uppboðshaldari -
3 black market
((a place for) the illegal buying and selling, at high prices, of goods that are scarce, rationed etc: coffee on the black market.) svartur markaður -
4 boutique
[bu:'ti:k](a fashionable, usually small shop, especially one selling clothes: She prefers small boutiques to large stores.) tískuverslun (með föt) -
5 delicatessen
[delikə'tesn]((a shop selling) foods prepared ready for the table, especially cooked meats and usually unusual and foreign foods: I bought some smoked sausage at the delicatessen.) ÿmsir tilbúnir (sér)réttir -
6 department store
(a large shop with many different departments selling a wide variety of goods.) deildaskipt stórverslun -
7 do a roaring trade
(to have a very successful business; to sell a lot of something: She's doing a roaring trade in/selling home-made cakes.) rífandi viðskipti/sala -
8 fête
[feit](an entertainment, especially in the open air, with competitions, displays, the selling of goods etc usually to raise money, especially for charity: We are holding a summer fete in aid of charity.) -
9 get busted
(be arrested: They got busted while selling the drugs.) -
10 good will
1) (the good reputation and trade with customers that a business firm has: We are selling the goodwill along with the shop.) viðskiptavild2) (friendliness: He has always shown a good deal of goodwill towards us.) velvilji, góðvild -
11 goodwill
1) (the good reputation and trade with customers that a business firm has: We are selling the goodwill along with the shop.) viðskiptavild2) (friendliness: He has always shown a good deal of goodwill towards us.) velvilji, góðvild -
12 like hot cakes
(very quickly: These books are selling like hot cakes.) eins og heitar lummur -
13 monopoly
[mə'nopəli]plural - monopolies; noun(the sole right of making or selling something etc: This firm has a local monopoly of soap-manufacturing.) einokun; einkaleyfi- monopolise -
14 newsagent
noun (American news dealer) a person who has a shop selling newspapers (and usually other goods). blaðasali -
15 novelty
plural - novelties; noun1) (newness and strangeness: It took her a long time to get used to the novelty of her surroundings.) nÿbreytni, nÿjung2) (something new and strange: Snow is a novelty to people from hot countries.) nÿjung3) (a small, cheap manufactured thing sold as a toy or souvenir: a stall selling novelties.) leikföng, minjagripir -
16 obtain
[əb'tein](to get; to become the possessor of: He obtained a large sum of money by buying and selling houses.) afla -
17 palm (something) off on (someone)
(to get rid of (an undesirable thing or person) by giving, selling etc to (someone else): They palmed off their unwelcome guests on the people next door.) losa sig viðEnglish-Icelandic dictionary > palm (something) off on (someone)
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18 palm (something) off on (someone)
(to get rid of (an undesirable thing or person) by giving, selling etc to (someone else): They palmed off their unwelcome guests on the people next door.) losa sig viðEnglish-Icelandic dictionary > palm (something) off on (someone)
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19 palm (something) off on (someone)
(to get rid of (an undesirable thing or person) by giving, selling etc to (someone else): They palmed off their unwelcome guests on the people next door.) losa sig viðEnglish-Icelandic dictionary > palm (something) off on (someone)
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20 palm (something) off on (someone)
(to get rid of (an undesirable thing or person) by giving, selling etc to (someone else): They palmed off their unwelcome guests on the people next door.) losa sig viðEnglish-Icelandic dictionary > palm (something) off on (someone)
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