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11layoff — [[t]le͟ɪɒf, AM ɔːf[/t]] layoffs 1) N COUNT: usu pl When there are layoffs in a company, people are made unemployed because there is no more work for them in the company. It will close more than 200 stores nationwide resulting in the layoffs of an …
12layoff — noun a companywide layoff Syn: dismissal, discharge; informal sacking, firing; downsizing; the sack, the boot, the ax Ant: recruitment …
13Layoff Lit — Literature suited to leaner economic times. Noting the timeliness of George Clooney’s latest film, “Up in the Air,” The Times’s Motoko Rich commented: Now several writers and their publishers are hoping to catch the same wave with a cluster of… …
14layoff — A temporary suspension of employment of a person at the instance of his employer. The act of an employer in suspending the employment of one or more employees during an exigency, such as lack of materials, an oversupply of manufactured articles,… …
15layoff — noun Date: 1889 1. a period of inactivity or idleness 2. the act of laying off an employee or a workforce; also shutdown …
16layoff — /lay awf , of /, n. 1. the act of dismissing employees, esp. temporarily. 2. a period of enforced unemployment or inactivity. [1885 90, Amer.; n. use of v. phrase lay off] * * * …
17layoff — noun a) A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct). b) A period of time when someone is unavailable for work. Syn: downsizing, reduction in… …
18Layoff — 1. When a company eliminates jobs regardless of how good the employees performance. 2. A risk reduction, made by investment bankers, that minimizes the potential downside associated with a commitment to purchase and sell a stock issue… …
19Layoff — Lay off auch: Lay|off 〈[lɛıɔ̣f] n. 15〉 vorübergehende Entlassung von Arbeitskräften [engl.] …
20layoff — Synonyms and related words: abeyance, break, caesura, cashiering, cease fire, conge, cyclical unemployment, day off, deposal, discharge, disemployment, dismissal, displacing, drop, drumming out, firing, forced separation, furlough, furloughing,… …
