an amount of money that is so small it is not worth working for or considering
to be paid peanuts (They work long hours and earn peanuts)
highly-skilled professionals leave the country in search of working elsewhere
brain drain(Britain has suffered a huge brain drain in recent years.)
a usually large payment made to people when they leave their job.
a six-figure golden handshake(He is to leave with a golden handshake understood to total at least one year's salary.)
to tell your employer that you are leaving your job
to hand in notice (She’s given in her notice and she’s going to travel around the world.)
to receive money that a government gives to people who do not have jobs.
being on the dole(If I can't find any work within a month, I'll have to go on the dole)
to conclude or to irrefutably settle something
to clinch the deal (I hear he finally clinched the deal to buy the land he wanted)
to be sold when it is operating normally
going concern (They will get a better price if they sell the restaurant as a going concern
to avoid something intentionally, or to give something up
to eschew (We won't have discussions with this group unless they eschew violence)
to control or limit something that is not wanted
to curb (The government should act to curb tax evasion)
to be badly planned and unwise
ill-conceived(The whole project was ill-conceived)
not wise, and likely to cause problems in the future
ill-advised (you would be ill-advised to go on your own)
to teach yourself a particular skill
self-taught (Most of these artists are self-taught.)
to have many different uses
multi-purpose (This room is multi-purpose – we use it for meetings, interviews, and taking breaks.)
a situation in which people are not at school or work when they should be
absenteeism (Students with chronic absenteeism can pull down the school's performance)
an area in a place of business where one person works at a computer
workstation(IT updated the workstations for us so that they are now fully networked.)
