Category: F
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Flexitime (Flextime)
Flexible hours arrangement where employees have several options for starting and stopping time, flexible hours.
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flexible retirement
An employment option allowing a person to retire at an age of his or her choice, retirement; mandatory retirement.
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Flexible hours
In management, a practice whereby workers arrange their starting and stopping times to suit their personal requirements provided that they work a core time each day.
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Fleabags
Slang for elderly bar girls.
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Flavor enhancers
Artificial substances that are added to food to change one’s perception of its flavor.
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Flat schedule
In insurance policies, everyone in a group is insured for the same benefits regardless of salary or position.
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Flat organizational chart
An organizational chart that is characterized by few levels and relatively large spans of management.
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Flat effect
In psychology, a deviation in emotional response wherein virtually no emotion is expressed what ever the stimuli. Emotional expressiveness is blunted, or a lack of expression and muscle tone is noted in the face.
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Flasher
Slang for exhibitionist.
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Flash
A short, intense, generalized sensation of total well-being experienced soon after intravenous injection of cocaine or methamphetamine, the so-called rush reaction. A hot flash. A flush accompanied by a sensation of heat. It is common during menopause.