Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Layoff |
LayoffNoun1. The act of laying off an employee or a work force. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Electrical Engineering | Excess capacity of a generating unit, available for a limited time under the terms of a power sales agreement. Source: European Union. (references) |
Labor | A separation of an employee from an establishment that is initiated by the employer; an involuntary separation; a period of forced unemployment (JOLTS). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Layoff |
| English words defined with "layoff": call-back. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "layoff": Duration of unemployment ♦ electric utility layoff, Extended mass layoff ♦ Job losers ♦ MANAGER, BENEFITS, manager, employee benefits, manager, employee services, manager, personnel services, Mass layoff ♦ personnel administrator ♦ staffing. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | You work for a defense contractor if you learn about your layoff on KABC radio. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Government strategies for achieving that goal include large-scale privatization of unprofitable state-owned enterprises and the layoff of workers. (references) | |
Economic History | India | Retrenchment, closure and layoffs are governed by the Industrial Disputes Act, which requires prior government permission to layoff workers or close a businesses employing 100 or more workers. (references) |
Women | Fiji | During the year, the garment industry saw the closing of several factories and the layoff of hundreds of seamstresses. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Layoff" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Layoff" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "layoff": electric utility layoff. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
layoff | 255 |
fedex layoff | 64 |
chp layoff | 28 |
layoff letter | 25 |
eds layoff | 20 |
employee layoff | 17 |
express federal layoff | 15 |
bellsouth layoff | 15 |
layoff sprint | 13 |
ibm layoff | 12 |
ex fed layoff | 12 |
layoff microsoft | 11 |
layoff safeway | 11 |
surviving layoff | 11 |
boeing layoff | 11 |
layoff and downsizing | 11 |
layoff tsa | 10 |
hp layoff | 10 |
company layoff | 10 |
layoff notice | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "layoff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pezullim (abeyance, arrest, cancel, cancellation, hold, reversal, stay, suspense, suspension). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 临时解雇. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | overskudskapacitet (electric utility layoff, preheat margin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tijdelijk niet-afgenomen elektriciteit (electric utility layoff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فصل کم کاری , متوقف ساختن , بخدمت خاتمه دادن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hetkellinen lisäkapasiteetti (electric utility layoff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | licenciement (lay off), puissance excédentaire (electric utility layoff), mise pied. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Entlassung (discharge, dismissal, expulsion, lay off, marching orders, pensioning off, release, resignation, retirement, sack, sacking, suspension, suspension of staff, termination), Arbeitsunterbrechung (stoppage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | létszámcsökkentés (ax, axe, cut-back, shakeout), uborkaszezon (silly season), szabadságidő, munkaszünet, munkanélküliség (inoccupation, lay off, unemployment), munkáselbocsátás (lay off, shut out), elbocsátott munkás, elbocsátott alkalmazott, elbocsátás (discharge, dismissal, push, removal, sacking, send off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pemberhentian (discharge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | potenza in eccesso (electric utility layoff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | レーニン主義 (beggar, homeless, label, labor union, lane, layer, layered cut, layered look, layman, layout, layout-system, lecture, leg guards, leggings, Leghorn, lei, Leninism, leopon, leotard, lexicon, philosophy of life, racialism, racism, rail, rain, rainbow fish, raincoat, rainy, raise, range, ranger, rape, rapier, rare, rare metal, ray, Ray-Ban, rayonne, ray-tracing, record, recorder, recording, recreation, regatta, reggae, regular, regular chain store, regular member, regulation, Regulus, requiem). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | レイオフ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ayofflay увольнение (chuck, discharge, dismissal, leave, quit, sacking). (various references) sobrecapacidad (electric utility layoff, overcapacity). (various references) friställning. (various references) การเลิกจ้าง. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "layoff": layoffs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "layoff": playoff. (additional references) | |
Words containing "layoff": playoffs. (additional references) | |
| |
"Layoff" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alloff, aloff, Klukoff, layofff, leboff, Liroff, liyf, Llynfi, lukoff, Luloff, lyff, Makoff. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "layoff" (pronounced lā"ô'f) |
| 4 | l ā" ô' f | playoff. |
| 3 | -ā" ô' f | payoff. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-f-l-o-y" | |
-1 letter: offal. | |
-2 letters: flay, foal, loaf, ofay, yaff. | |
-3 letters: aff, fay, fly, foy, lay, oaf, off. | |
-4 letters: al, ay, fa, la, lo, of, oy, ya, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-f-l-o-y" | |
+1 letter: layoffs, playoff. | |
+2 letters: playoffs. | |
+4 letters: affordably, officially. | |
+5 letters: flavorfully, offhandedly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 79 6F 66 66 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -.--. --- ..-. ..-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01111001 01101111 01100110 01100110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a y o f f |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0079 006F 0066 0066 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)466791817272 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
