Category: F

  • Flexitime (Flextime)

    Flexible hours arrangement where employees have several options for starting and stopping time, flexible hours.  

  • flexible retirement

    An employment option allowing a person to retire at an age of his or her choice, retirement; mandatory retirement.  

  • 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.  

  • Fleabags

    Slang for elderly bar girls.  

  • Flavor enhancers

    Artificial substances that are added to food to change one’s perception of its flavor.  

  • Flat schedule

    In insurance policies, everyone in a group is insured for the same benefits regardless of salary or position.  

  • Flat organizational chart

    An organizational chart that is characterized by few levels and relatively large spans of management.  

  • 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.    

  • Flasher

    Slang for exhibitionist.  

  • 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.