Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. transitive (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume, often with a severance package.
- v. transitive (of a bookmaker) To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
- v. transitive, idiomatic To cease, quit, stop (doing something).
- v. transitive and intransitive, idiomatic To stop bothering, annoying, teasing, pestering, pressuring, being aggressive with, or hovering over someone; to leave (someone) alone.
WordNet 3.0
- v. dismiss, usually for economic reasons
- v. put an end to a state or an activity
Examples
“Embraer was allowed in principle to lay off workers, if necessary, and actually did so in 1977, when local demand for Ipanemas and Piper models slumped after a government-imposed credit squeeze.”
Simon & Schuster: Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies
“Indeed, it was an axiom with her that the cook can do no wrong; and a cook in a Southern kitchen finds abundance of heads and shoulders on which to lay off every sin and frailty, so as to maintain her own immaculateness entire.”
“The small suitcase lay off to one side, propped against the grille of iron bars that protected the niuspepa store.”
“Solidly palatial brick buildings that housed the banks, stock exchanges, gambling palaces and whorehouses clustered near the scrollwork mansions of the rich away south of Market Street; clapboard boardinghouses and stores huddled in the shadows of the hills and a dense, rickety congestion of color and dirt marked where Chinatown lay off to the south.”
“On August 11, he coaled at San Francisco and then lay off the Golden Gate for five days, keeping Allied shipping in port.”
“An 'we'll lay off Sparrow's Point a couple o' days while the letters he give me goes ashore, to let the taps know you're comin '.”
“It lay off the banks of Wallabout Bay between Manhattan and Long Island for several years, its moldering planks and timbers covered with thousands of names carved into the wood.”
“On Monday, I had, (with the concurrance of Col Bell) John Brooks, Wm M. Tate & Wm A. Bell appointed Comrs, to lay off your dower in the land & slaves, if you should adhere to the opinion that that was the best course.”
Augusta: Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart to Ellen Stuart (Douglass) McCue, November 29, 1862
“To make ends meet, Bert Wilson, the new president, decided to lay off part of the faculty and impose other cuts.”
“The Ashamu Group had been able to lay off many of the field hands and machinery operators employed by Pioneer Farms Limited.”
Simon & Schuster: Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies
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Euphemisms for Being Fired
Corporations just can't tell it like it is. How to tell if you're losing your job.
reduction in work..., rif, terminate, lay off, can, let go, position being el..., transitioned empl..., downsize, streamline, restructure, right-sized and 7 more...
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RocknRolla (2008)
Words from 2008 'RocknRolla' film.
drip, consent, foothold, bricks and mortar, mortar, councillor, let down, wand, clean out, leg-up, hasty, erect and 115 more...
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TT1 Lesson 2
date, may, chore, finish, put off, inspect, permission, interrupt, tie, untie, trip, control and 10 more...
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