Vocabulary

• home in: Move or direct toward a specific target or goal.
• ever since: Continuously from a past time until now.
• per year: For each year; annually.
• meet the demand: To supply enough of something that people want or need.
• run by: To be managed or controlled by someone or a group.
• commitment: Permanent love or concern for person, thing
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• progress: To move forward or toward a place or goal
• iconic: Being widely recognized as a symbol of something
• acquire: To get or earn something by thinking or working
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• current: Electricity flowing through wires
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• roughly: Approximately; (of numbers) about; around
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• keen: Being eager or excited for something to happen
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• arguably: Highly likely to be true but not certainly true
• acquisition: Process of acquiring; thing that is acquired
• facility: Piece of equipment or buildings with a special use
• snap: To close your mouth quickly like biting something
• responsible: Being the cause of something that has occurred
• introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
• generation: Act or process of producing or causing something
• empty: Containing nothing; with no contents
• invest: To use resources to build for the future
• abandon: To discard or intentionally get rid of an item
• peer: A noble, but not royal, person, e.g. lord or duke
• produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
• tale: Story that is not true
• development: Act or process of growing bigger or more advanced
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• count: To add things together to find the total number
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• vintage: Old and somewhat treasured
• ongoing: Continuing to exist or be in progress
• staff: Employees of a company
• fill: To make something full
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• archive: To store things such as historical records
• great: Very good; better than before
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• portfolio: A list of the financial assets held by someone
• space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
• expansion: Making or becoming larger
• undoubtedly: With certainty; without question; for sure
• crucially: To an extremely important or necessary degree
• bustle: To move energetically or busily
• recruitment: Act of enlisting people into the army
• homeland: Country where you were born
• ole: Dialect another way of saying 'old'
• ceo: CEO for Chief Operating Officer