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| Domain | Definition |
Economics | Dispensing, temporarily or permanently, with labour or machinery. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Marking off the stem and branches of a felled tree into lengths for cross-cutting. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: LAYING OFF |
| English words defined with "LAYING OFF": layoff ♦ Odontograph, Optical square ♦ Recipiangle ♦ Try-square. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I think the trick is laying off the ale before you start quoting Angela's Ashes and weeping like a baby-man. (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | The Termination Act for example prohibits employers from laying off workers even on the grounds of inefficiency. (references) |
Austria | It provides financial bonuses for companies hiring workers age 50 and above, and envisions penalties for businesses laying off workers within this age group. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | In addition, privatization agreements as a rule prohibit new owners from laying off workers, although the owners are free to offer voluntary retirement packages to reduce their workforce. (references) | |
Political Economy | GREECE | Greek labor law prohibits laying off more than two percent per month of total personnel employed by a firm. (references) |
Nigeria | States with large civil service workforces have been particularly hard-hit, and have been forced to downsize by laying off or retiring workers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
employee laying off | 6 |
laying off | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-f-g-i-l-n-o-y" | |
-2 letters: flaying, foaling, loafing, yaffing. | |
-3 letters: faying, flagon, flying, gainly, goniff, laying, layoff, offing. | |
-4 letters: agony, algin, align, aloin, along, fagin, final, fling, flong, folia, gaily, ganof, gliff, gonia, gonif, inlay, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, lingy, logan, logia, lying, noily, offal, yogin. | |
-5 letters: agin, agio, agly, agon, alif, anil, ayin, fail, fain, fang, fano, fila. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-f-g-i-l-n-o-y" | |
+4 letters: suffocatingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 41 59 49 4E 47 4F 46 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000001 01011001 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01001111 01000110 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L A Y I N G   O F F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0041 0059 0049 004E 0047 004F 0046 0046 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4635594348412494040 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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