Project management
Contrast and similarity linkers
Collocations with "set"
HR vocabulary
100

Significant event in the project, usually completion of a major task.

Milestone

100

A synonym of "even though"

Though, although

100

Fix the objective

Set the goal/target

100

"A benefit to which one is entitled because of one's job." 

Perk

200

Level of deviation from the formal plan (in terms of time, budget or quality) which is permitted

Tolerance

200

Complete: "They won the match. _______, it was not an easy match."

However/nevertheless

200

We need to decide "when we will hold the meeting"

Set the date

200

"A former member of a group, university, company, or organization."

Alumnus

300

How do you call "time when one can relax, delay a task but still finish the project on time"?

Slack

300

Complete: "You and your father don’t look very much _______."

Alike

300

"Draw up a list of items to be discussed at a meeting."

Set the agenda

300

"A period of time during which one chooses not to work, typically in order to bring up one's children or pursue other interests."

Career break

400

A verb meaning "entrust (a task or responsibility) to another person, typically one who is less senior than oneself."

Delegate

400

Complete: "They won the match. It was not an easy match, ______."

Though

400

He "was given the job" of designing a new program.

Set the task

400

"Moving requently between positions in different companies"

Job-hopping

500

What's a "knock-on effect"?

A secondary, indirect, or cumulative effect.

500

Complete: "He loves foreign holidays, _______his wife prefers to stay at home."

Whereas, while

500

It seems this "will mean that other other companies will follow suit".

Set a precedent

500

"The gradual reduction of a workforce by employees leaving and not being replaced rather than by redundancy."

Attrition