Flexible Spending Account. Your employer may offer dependent care benefits by allowing you to use pre-tax dollars to pay for your child care expenses. This arrangement is a flexible spending account that is funded pre-tax contributions, deducted from your pay. For 2013, the maximum tax-free amount is $5,000.
golden parachute. A clause in an executive's employment contract specifying that he/she will receive large benefits in the event that the company is acquired and the executive's employment is terminated.
Golden age (metaphor) A golden age is a period in a field of endeavor when great tasks were accomplished. The term originated from early Greek and Roman poets, who used it to refer to a time when mankind lived in a better time and was pure (see Golden Age).