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lay off

verb as in stop doing

verb as in relieve of responsibility

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It recalibrated its podcast strategy and laid off employees.

Amazon will not lay off any employees due to the change, the company said.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is preparing to lay off hundreds of employees this week, director Laurie Leshin said in a memo to staff sent Tuesday afternoon.

But gone are the days when a remote tech job translated to real stability; two weeks after we moved to New York, John was laid off.

From Salon

In business, Musk has become known for his opposition to perceived government overregulation and his approach to cost-cutting - most notably after he took over Twitter, which he rebranded X and laid off thousands of staff.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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