Leave a job or organization

to leave a job or organization:

quit – to leave a job or organization especially because you are not happy with it, or because you think you could do better somewhere else;

resign – to officially and permanently leave a job, for example because you are no longer happy with it, or because the people you work with do not think you are doing it properly;

retire – to permanently leave your job, usually because you have reached the age when most people stop working;

hand on your notice/resignation – to write an official letter to your employer saying that you are going to leave your job on a particular date;

pack it in/jack it in – an informal British expression meaning to leave your job, especially because you are bored with it;

to make someone leave their job:

fire – to make someone leave their job, especially because they have done something wrong or something the employer does not approve of;

sack/give sb the sack – words used especially in British English meaning to make someone leave their job, for example, because they are not good enough at it, they are no longer needed, or they have done something wrong;

dismiss – an official or legal word meaning to make someone leave their job;

give sb the boot – an informal expression meaning to make someone leave their job, especially because they have done something wrong;

lay off – to make workers, especially workers in a large factory or organization leave their jobs, because there is not enough work for them to do, or not enough money to pay their wages;

make sb redundant – an expression used especially in British English meaning to make someone leave their job, and usually pay them some money to do so, because they are no longer needed;

suspend – to make someone leave a job or organization temporarily, either as a punishment for doing something wrong, or while the organization tries to find out, whether they have done something wrong or not;

shed – if a company sheds some of its workers, it stops employing them, especially in order to save money;

give sb their notice – to tell someone that they must leave their job, either immediately or in a week, a month, etc.;

relieve sb of their duties/post – if someone with an important official job is relieved of their duties or post, their job is taken away from them, especially for a short time because people think they have done something very bad and this is being checked.

MANAGER – someone whose job is to run part or all of a company or other organization;

one of the top managers who control and direct the work of a company or other organization:

president – the top person in a company or organization, especially in the US, who is in charge of general plans and decisions;

chairman – the top person in a company or organization, especially in Britain, who is in charge of general plans and decisions;

chief executive – the top manager of a large company or other organization who is in charge of the daily running of that company or organization;

managing director – the top manager of a company or one of the large departments of a company, who is in charge of its daily running;

chief – a word used especially in newspapers, meaning the top manager of a company or other organization;

boss – an informal word used especially in newspapers, meaning the top manager in a company or other organization.

MONEY

words meaning money, used when talking about how much things cost, how much people earn or spend, etc.:

cash – money, especially money which you have available to spend;

dash – an informal British word meaning money;

dough – an informal word meaning money, especially a lot of money;

the wherewithal – the money that you need in order to do something or pay for something;

all the money that a person, organization, or country owns:

means – all the money that you own, especially if it is enough for everything that you need;

assets – all of the money and property which a company or person owns, and which they may sell or use if necessary;

finances – all the money that a person, company, organization, etc. owns, especially when this is regularly checked so they know about any changes in it;

savings – the money which you have saved, which is usually kept in a bank or some other financial institution;

resources – all the money, property, or that a company, organization, or country owns and that can be used to make more money or to provide services;

money that someone receives regularly to spend or live on:

allowance – an amount of money that someone receives regularly, which they do not earn by working;

pension – an amount of money that old people receive regularly from the government, their former employer, or an insurance company after paying in money over many years;

pocket money – a small amount of money that children receive from their parents every week;

allowance – an American word meaning small amount of money that children receive from their parents every week;

income – all the money that someone receives regularly, for example from their jobs, from their savings or from the government;

welfare – an American word meaning the money that is paid by the government to people without jobs;

benefit – money that people receive from the government if they have no job, do not earn a lot, or are sick;

money that is used to start new businesses, pay for business plans etc.:

finance – money that is lent or given to you in order to pay for a plan, new business activity etc.;

capital – a large amount of money that can be used to start a new business or business activity and from which you may at some time receive a profit;

funding – money that the government or a large organization provides or lends, usually over a period of time, to pay for a particular plan or activity;

investment – the money that people or organizations have put into a company, business, or bank in order to make a profit;

sponsorship – money that is provided by a company or by the government to pay for someone to do something or pay for something such as a sports event, art show etc.;

subsidy – an amount of money provided by the government to reduce the cost of something;

ways of saying that a person or company has no money to pay their debts or cannot continue in business:

insolvent – a company or business person that is insolvent has lost all their money;

bankrupt – a company or business person that is bankrupt does not have enough money to pay their debts and must stop doing business;

go bankrupt – if a company or business person – goes bankrupt, they no longer have enough money to pay what they owe and must stop doing business;

go bust – an informal expression meaning to no longer have enough money to pay your debts and therefore have to stop doing business;

be ruined – if someone is ruined, they have lost all their money and property after working very hard for it, and have to stop doing business.

OWE

to owe money to a person or organization:

owe – to owe money to someone because you have borrowed from them or because you have received something from them and not paid for it;

be in debt – to owe sums of money that you cannot pay;

be in the red – to owe more money than you have;

be overdrawn – to owe money to the bank because you have spent more than you have in your bank account;

money that is owed:

debt – an amount of money, especially a large amount, that is owed

overdraft – an amount of money that the bank has agreed to let you use when there is no money in your account;

arrears – money that is owed because regular payments such as rent have not been made at the right time;

liabilities – a word used especially in law and business meaning the debts that a company, government, etc. is legally responsible to pay;

to not owe any money:

be all square – if two people are all square, neither of them owes any money to the other;

be quits – an informal expression: if two people are quits, neither of them owes any money to the other;

keep your head above water – to stay out of debt, although it is difficult to do this because you have very little money;

be in credit – if your bank account is in credit, there is money in it;

be in the black – if you or your bank account are in the black, you do not owe any money to anyone and you have money in the bank.

OWN

to own part or all of a company or business:

control/have control of – to own a larger part of a company than other people so that you have power to make decisions about that company;

hold – to own part of a company because you own a number of the equal parts into which it is divided;

have a stake in – to own part of a company and therefore be able to receive the rewards of its success;

interest – if a person, company or government has an interest in a business, they own part of that business.

PART

one of the parts of an organization:

branch – one of the local offices or shops that form part of a large organization such as a bank or a political party;

department – one of the parts of a large organization, such as a company, college, or government, that is responsible for one of the organization's main areas of activity;

division – a large part of an organization, especially a company, which often includes several smaller parts;

section – a part of an organization, especially a part of a company or of a political group, that is responsible for a special area of its work;

sector – a part of an area of economic activity, such as industry or trade.

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