Definitions

to spend time away from your work:

to get control of a company by buying enough of the shares in it:

to report to a government employment office that you now have a job and do not need to receive benefit (= money paid by the government)

to take a criminal to the police or other authority:

to be known or discovered finally and surprisingly:

If a better situation or an opportunity to do something turns up, it happens or becomes available unexpectedly or in a way that was not planned:

to be known or discovered finally and surprisingly:

to examine a document or subject with someone in order to explain it or to get their help or opinion on it:

a secret warning or piece of secret information:

to give secret information to someone, or to give someone information without intending to:

a secret warning or piece of secret information: