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sick leave payment for specific number of days each year during which an employee may be absent due to illness EXAMPLE: After they have worked for one year, all the employees of the XYZ automobile com...

　 small business any business with a small number of employees (under 100), usually operated by one person, one family, or a small group of managers EXAMPLE: Many immigrant families open small busin...

sole proprietorship in the U.S. an unincorporated business owned wholly by one individual EXAMPLE: My uncle’s tea shop was a sole proprietorship until my father joined him in a partnership....

to deliver the goods to do well at your job, especially to fulfill high expectations of you EXAMPLE: “We were delighted by the young new salesman who made more sales than anyone else in his first we...

　 to face the music to take the consequences for one’s actions, usually unpleasant consequences EXAMPLE: The sales manager had made all his successful sales representatives so angry that they all ...

to flesh out a proposal to give or to create a more complete description of an idea EXAMPLE: “Our company’s president, Mr. Smith, liked the new idea our engineering chief, Ms. Jones, had suggested...

　 to get the pink slip to get fired, or to get laid off (traditionally, an official notice of termination was printed on pink paper. EXAMPLE: When the XYZ company’s sales fell in half for the seco...

to give away the farm to enter a business deal as a seller in which too much is given to the buyer EXAMPLE: “The desperate salesman dropped the price of his products to make many deals, but his boss...

to go the extra mile to make an extra effort in making a deal or providing service (from the Biblical proverb “if someone asks you to walk one mile, walk two miles”) EXAMPLE: “In order to provid...

to go belly-up in business, to collapse; to go out of business (“belly” means stomach, so going belly-up means to turn on your back and float like a dead fish) EXAMPLE: My brother’s company went...