Phrasal Verbs for Work Exercises

The workplace is full of phrasal verbs that are essential for professional communication. You hand in a report to your manager, deal with customer complaints, set up meetings, and take on new responsibilities. If a company reduces its workforce, employees are laid off. If someone resigns from a leadership position, they step down. Knowing these phrasal verbs helps you participate confidently in workplace conversations, write professional emails, and understand business discussions in English.

An important distinction in business English is between hand in and hand out. Hand in means to give something to a person in authority: "Hand in your expense report by Friday." Hand out means to distribute something to a group: "She handed out the agenda at the start of the meeting." Both are separable: "Hand it in" and "Hand them out." Another useful pair is take on (accept new work or responsibility) and take over (assume control of something from someone else). More formal phrasal verbs like draw up (prepare a document) and carry out (perform a task) are common in business writing and appear frequently in Cambridge B2 First and C1 Advanced exams.