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lay off
verb as in stop doing
Example Sentences
Firms lay-off workers and the loss of income starts to multiply as those workers reduce their spending elsewhere.
This steamy heat is the very deuce to work in, and I'll be glad of the lay-off on Sunday.
"I betche Andy just wanted a lay-off, and took that way uh getting it," declared Happy Jack pessimistically.
Such, at least, were my feelings in those long, beautiful June days that followed close on the "lay-off" at Rosenfeld's.
Almost without exception, there were people at home upon whom this annual "lay-off" fell with tragic force.
Having completed his work on the wireless plant at the Navy Yard, Bowen thought himself due for a lay-off.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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