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21lay off — {v. phr.} 1. To mark out the boundaries or limits. * /He laid off a baseball diamond on the vacant lot./ Compare: LAY OUT(5). 2. To put out of work. * /The company lost the contract for making the shoes and laid off half its workers./ 3. {slang}… …
22lay off — {v. phr.} 1. To mark out the boundaries or limits. * /He laid off a baseball diamond on the vacant lot./ Compare: LAY OUT(5). 2. To put out of work. * /The company lost the contract for making the shoes and laid off half its workers./ 3. {slang}… …
23lay off — v. (D; tr.) to lay off from (she was laid off from her job at the factory) * * * [ leɪ ɒf] (D; tr.) to lay off from (she was laid off from her job at the factory) …
24lay\ off — v. phr. 1. To mark out the boundaries or limits. He laid off a baseball diamond on the vacant lot. Compare: lay out(5) 2. To put out of work. The company lost the contract for making the shoes and laid off half its workers. 3. slang To stop… …
25lay off — /ˌleɪ ɒf/ verb 1. to dismiss employees for a time (until more work is available) ● The factory laid off half its workers because of lack of orders. 2. especially US to dismiss employees permanently ♦ to lay off risks to protect oneself against… …
26Nova express off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg — by Carolyn Cassady (1990) Though Carolyn Cassady does not consider herself a Beat, this is one of the most important memoirs that was written about the Beat era. Carolyn was commissioned by a publisher to write her memoirs in 1970, but she was …
27lay off — informal 1) I have to lay off beer Syn: give up, abstain from, desist from, cut out 2) I lay off work at 5 Syn: quit, pack in, leave off, stop 3) lay off, you big jerk! …
28lay off — 1) (smb) get rid of workers when business is bad Six hundred workers at the automobile factory were recently laid off. 2) stop bothering, leave alone The players were told by the coach to lay off teasing the new player so that he could relax… …
29lay someone off — lay (someone) off to force a worker to give up a job, usually because of high costs or other business reasons. She was laid off along with many others when the company moved to California. Our choices are to lay off ten workers, or raise our… …
30lay off — lay (someone) off to force a worker to give up a job, usually because of high costs or other business reasons. She was laid off along with many others when the company moved to California. Our choices are to lay off ten workers, or raise our… …
