1. After their house had been ________ they decided to sell it and buy a bigger one.

2. The ________ in the market was seen as a positive sign that the recession was over.

3. I can strongly recommend this ________ as the best available on the market today.

4. When you go to an auction and you want to buy a particular item, you can simply make a ________ for it.

5. Fifty people were made ________ when the company suffered a severe financial shock.

6. That new invention has been very successful and has proved to be a money ________ for its creator.

7. The ________ trend in children's desire to wear designer label clothes should be exploited.

8. The ________ of alcohol is not allowed in any of the company's premises in order to present a clean image.

9. The local department store has to make a sustained effort at this time of the year to ________ customer demand for summer clothing.

10. Whenever I go to the old part of a city, I like to ________ all the shops selling antiques.