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Narrator: Today's entry is "bring in" — a phrasal verb, pronounced /brɪŋ ɪn/, with the stress on "bring".
Narrator: Bring in means to introduce, involve, or generate, often referring to income or new participants.
Narrator: In plain English, this phrase describes introducing something new, or generating revenue.
Narrator: It combines "bring", to carry, with "in", indicating inclusion or entry into a system.
Narrator: "Bring in a consultant" describes hiring outside expertise to address a specific challenge.
Narrator: It differs from "introduce" by scope — bring in often implies practical, functional addition.
Narrator: "Bring in revenue" describes generating income through sales or business activity.
Narrator: Business strategy and legislative discussion both frequently rely on "bring in".
Narrator: So remember: bring in marks introduction or generation — adding new participants, or producing income and results.
Speaker A: "Bring in a consultant" and "bring in revenue" always feel so different to me. Is there really one shared idea connecting them?
Speaker B: Genuinely, yes, one shared idea! BRING IN combines "bring" with "in", entry, covering both adding new people to a system and generating new income for it. Both involve something new entering a situation.
Speaker A: So the underlying idea really is about introducing something new, whether that's a person or money?
Speaker B: Exactly — that new-addition idea is precisely why bring in works for consultants and revenue alike!
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "They brought in a new manager"; "the campaign brought in significant revenue"; "parliament brought in new legislation" — hiring decision, financial success, and legal change.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Always two words — "bring in"; irregular verb, bring, brought, brought in past forms!
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: "Introduce" the general cousin, "generate" the revenue-specific twin, "recruit" the personnel-focused alternative. Bring in keeps its practical, versatile charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "bring in" in AI prompts — useful for HR recruitment-workflow design and sales-dashboard revenue-tracking features.
Speaker A: So bring in in a prompt could help design an HR recruitment workflow, or a sales dashboard's revenue tracker?
Speaker B: Right. For an HR recruitment-workflow design, you'd write:
Prompt: Build a workflow to bring in new candidates automatically from three job boards, screening resumes by keyword.
Speaker A: Good — what about a sales dashboard tracking how much revenue each campaign brings in monthly?
Speaker B: The sales-dashboard prompt:
Prompt: Track how much revenue each marketing campaign brings in monthly, ranking campaigns by return on investment.
Speaker A: A referral program feature rewarding users who bring in new customers to the platform?
Speaker B: The referral-program prompt:
Prompt: Reward users who bring in new customers through referrals, tracking successful signups back to the referring account.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: The onboarding-flow prompt:
Prompt: Bring in the user's existing contacts automatically during signup, with a clear option to skip this step.
Bring in — meaning in Arabic & definition More B courses GL Dictionary