Technical partnerships require clear, professional language at every stage. This quiz covers collocations for building rapport, establishing integrations, negotiating agreements, and handing off work.
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Fill in: 'Before the technical kickoff, the account manager recommended spending time to ___ rapport with the partner's engineering team.'
We 'build rapport' — 'build rapport' is the fixed collocation for creating a sense of trust and mutual understanding in a professional relationship. 'Establish rapport' is also idiomatic; 'create rapport' is less common; 'develop rapport' is grammatically correct but 'build' is by far the most frequent partner in this phrase.
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Fill in: 'The two platforms agreed to ___ a webhook-based integration to sync user events in real time.'
We 'establish an integration' — 'establish' is used when forming a new, formal technical connection between systems. 'Build an integration' focuses on the engineering work; 'create' is generic; 'set up an integration' is correct and common but more informal and focuses on the configuration rather than the formal partnership.
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Fill in: 'Legal and engineering worked together to ___ SLAs covering uptime and response times for the API.'
We 'negotiate SLAs' — 'negotiate' captures the bilateral process of agreeing terms between two parties with differing interests. 'Agree SLAs' describes the outcome; 'define SLAs' is used when one party sets the terms unilaterally; 'set SLAs' is informal and does not imply a collaborative process.
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Fill in: 'Both engineering teams will ___ a joint authentication solution rather than building separate implementations.'
We 'co-develop solutions' — 'co-develop' is the precise partnership term for two organisations jointly creating a shared artefact. 'Jointly build' is close but less concise; 'share' implies using something that already exists; 'collaborate on' describes the working relationship rather than the output.
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Fill in: 'Once the integration was stable, the partner team was responsible for the ___ to their own infrastructure team.'
We 'hand off an integration' — 'hand off' is the technical partnership term for formally transferring ownership from one team to another with appropriate documentation. 'Transfer' is more formal and suits physical or legal assets; 'pass' is informal; 'deliver' focuses on the act of presenting rather than the ongoing ownership transfer.