Lay Off

Definitions: Lay Off

Lay Off

Verb

1. Put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother".

2. Dismiss, usually for economic reasons.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Law

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Synonyms: Lay Off

Crosswords: Lay Off

Either lay off politics, or get out. (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison)

I didn't recognize you. You should lay off those candy bars. (Touch of Evil; writing credit: Whit Masterson; Orson Welles)

You have really got to lay off the rhyming, Prue (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

Lay off him! They always hastle the new guy. Just wait till you make your first save. (Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story; writing credit: Frank Moorhouse)

We will pass through the American patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest city, and listen to their rock and roll while we conduct missile drills. (The Hunt for Red October; writing credit: Larry Ferguson)

But uh uh honey lay off of my shoes ("Blue Suede Shoes"; performing artist: Carl Perkins)

Lay Off! (1919)

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Theater & Movies

• South Park, Vol. 12: Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods/Clubhouses (reference)

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Lay off! It's too chancy!.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Economic History

Nicaragua

Approval to lay off employees is usually granted by the Ministry, but may take some time. (references)

Qatar

The resulting recessionary local business climate caused many firms to lay off expatriate staff. (references)

Ecuador

Some employers rely on short-term contracts since job tenure rules make it difficult to lay off permanent workers. (references)

Political Economy

Ireland

Labor unions strenuously oppose proposals to lay off or dismiss workers, and significant severance packages for "redundant" workers are a common industrial practice in Ireland. (references)

Women

Ukraine

The Ministry of Labor estimated that at the end of 2000, 16 percent of working women are employed in hazardous jobs, and human rights groups have maintained that management selectively observed the law only as necessary to lay off or fire female workers. (references)

Worker Rights

Morocco

According to employer groups, the law makes it extremely difficult to fire or lay off permanent employees. (references)

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Expressions using "lay off": lay off smoking ♦ lay off workers. Additional references.

Albanian

lë të qetë (leave alone, leave in peace), zhvesh (bare, defoliate, denude, disarray, dismantle, disrobe, divest, doff, Hull, remove, scutch, shed, strip, strip naked, unclothe, undress), vë mënjanë (hoard, lay aside, lay by, move aside, put aside, put by, salt away, save, set apart, set aside, set by, set down), pezulloj nga puna, pezullimi i punimeve, ndalem (break off, call on, drop in, drop off, dwell on, halt, light, pause, pull up, put up, stand, stand still, stop). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فصل (adjudge, adjudicate, arrive at a resolution, break, break up, cashier, cut, cut off, decide, decision, demarcation, detach, detail, determine, discharge, disconnect, disconnection, disentangle, disjoin, disjunction, dismiss, displace, displacement, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, dissociation, disunite, divide, division, elaborate, expel, fire, have a final word, isolate, isolation, itemize, judge, make a decision, part, particularize, parting, partition, remove, render a judgement, resolve, sack, seclude, seclusion, segregate, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, settle, sever, severance, sunder, wean), ‏تساهل (indulge, indulgence, lenience, leniency, let on, tolerate, toleration), ‏تسريح, ‏سرح العامل مؤقتا, ‏اقال, ‏إقالة (discharge, dismissal, in order of the boot). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уволнявам (boot, cast, discard, discharge, dismiss, dispense, drop, fire, grass, muster out, release, relieve, remove, retire, sack, send away, separate, shelve, turn away), оставям на мира, безработица (unemployment). (various references)

Chinese 

裁�"� (to cut staff, to lay off employees). (various references)

Czech

vysazení z práce (lockout). (various references)

Danish

hjemsendelse paa grund af arbejdsmangel, arbejdsløshed af tekniske årsager (technological unemployment, temporary lay off). (various references)

Dutch

technische werkloosheid (technological unemployment, temporary lay off), afvloeien (be discharged gradually, flow down, flow off, shed). (various references)

Finnish

irtisanominen tuotannollisilla tai taloudellisilla perusteilla. (various references)

French

licenciement (layoff), laisser tomber (lay by), mise en chômage technique, mettre en chômage, destitution, débaucher, débauchage, chômage temporaire, chômage technique (temporary lay off). (various references)

German

personalfreisetzung, Personalabbau (manning level reduction, personnel cuts, reductions in staff, shake-out of labour, staff reduction), freisetzen (liberate, make redundant, release, set free), Entlassung (discharge, dismissal, expulsion, layoff, marching orders, pensioning off, release, resignation, retirement, sack, sacking, suspension, suspension of staff, termination), entlassen (ax, axe, cashier, demobilize, disband, disbanded, discharge, dismiss, dismissed, expel, fire, free, let out, muster out, pension off, probationer official, release, retire, sack, to disband, to dismiss, unburden), betrieblich bedingte Arbeitslosigkeit (intermittent unemployment, occasional unemployment, plant conditioned unemployment, technological unemployment, temporary lay off), Belegschaftsabbau (manning level reduction, shake-out of labour), aufhören (break off, cease, close, desist, discontinue, end, finish, finish off, give over, leave off, quit, stop, termination, to break off, to cease, to stop). (various references)

Greek 

ξεκουράζομαι (have a rest, rest, sit back, take things easy, unwind), μείωση προσωπικού (manning level reduction, shake-out of labour), απόλυση (absolution, chop, clear-down, clearing, clearing procedure, deposition, discharge, dismissal, release, termination, to discharge, to dismiss, to fire, to sack), απολύω προσωρινά. (various references)

Hebrew 

לפטר זמ� ית, ל�"רפות (desist, forsake, let up, relax, slack, temper, unhand). (various references)

Hungarian

munkanélküliség (inoccupation, layoff, unemployment), munkáselbocsátás (layoff, shut out), elküld (despatch, dispatch, send, send off, to despatch, to disband, to discard, to expedite, to forward, to order off, to remit, to send away, to send down, to send off, to ship, to shop, to turn away, to turn off, to write off), elbocsát (disband, discharge, dismiss, displace, fire, give the sack, remove, send off, to disband, to discard, to dismiss, to lay off, to pay off, to pipe down, to send away, to send off, to shelve, to shop, to turn away, to turn off, to unhand). (various references)

Italian

stagione morta, sospensione (abeyance, adjournment, cancellation, freezing, hesitation, stay, suspend, suspension, temporary expulsion), disoccupazione funzionale (technological unemployment, temporary lay off). (various references)

Pig Latin

aylay offay

Portuguese

secular (archaic, centenary, laic, laicize, lay, profane, secular, temporal, time worn, worldly), férias (holiday, holidays, leave, played out, spare time, vacation), espancar (bat, beat, belabor, belabour, clobber, lambaste, larrup, lathe, lathery, maltreatment, maul, pasteboard, pomology, quilt, spank, swinge, thresh, thwack, trounce, wallop, welt, whang, whop), despedir empregados, demissão (abdication, boot, bounce, chuck, demission, dismissal, dismission, displacement, resignation, resigns). (various references)

Romanian

perioadã de şomaj. (various references)

Russian 

увольнять (discharge, dismiss, fire out, muster out, pay off, remove, retire, send packing, shelve, turn away, turn off), увольнение работников, отдыхать (relax, repose, rest, resting, take a holiday). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

otpustiti (depressurize, discharge, dismiss, fire, release, send away, turn off), otpuštanje s posla, otpuštanje (bounce, discharge, dismissal, dismission, redundance, redundancy), odustati (abjure, backtrack, baulk, drop, drop out, give up, pass up, quit, recede, remise, scratch, withdraw). (various references)

Spanish

virar de bordo, suspender (abate, adjourn, ban, call off, catch, discontinue, fail, flunk, hang, hang up, hold up, knock off, lay aside, lay by, leave off, pip, pluck, reject, stay, stop, suspend), despido (discharge, dismissal, layoff, lay-off, mittimus, notice, ouster, redundance, redundancy, resignation, sacking, termination), despedirse de (ax, axe, bid farewell to, emit, flash, shed, ship off, take adieu, take leave of), desempleo técnico (technological unemployment, temporary lay off, unemployment due to technological progress), dejar en (lay, lay aside, lay by, lay down, lay out). (various references)

Swedish

permittering (furlough, lay-off). (various references)

Turkish

rahat bırakmak (give a horse the reins, leave alone, leave in peace, leave well alone, let alone, let be, not to bother), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), işten çıkarmak (decapitate, discharge, dismiss, fire, give smb. the gate, turn off), geçici olarak uzaklaştırmak (stand off), geçici işten çıkarılma, bitmek (adore, be at an end, be out of smth., be very fond of, break off, break up, cease, come to an end, conclude, die down, drop, end, end off, end up, expire, fag, finish, lapse, leave off, quit, run out, sprout, stop, surcease, terminate, vegetate, wear out), bir kenara koymak (lay aside, put on one side, set aside, setaside), bırakmak (abandon, allow, break oneself of a habit, chuck, consign, demise, discontinue, dismiss, dispose of, drop, drop in, drop out, edge out, expose, fail, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, grow, hand down, jack in, jilt, kick, lay down, leave, leave off, let, let go, let smb. have it, offload, outgrow, plant, put, put away, put off, put to, quit, release, release one's hold, relinquish, renounce, resign, revolt from, stop, surrender, take one's farewell of, throw over, unclasp, unlearn, unloose, walk out), ara vermek (break, discontinue, have a break, intermit, interrupt, lay over, lie off, make a pause, pause, prorogue, recess, remit, space, space out, surcease, suspend). (various references)

Ukranian 

скидати (bare, cast, cast down, cast off, deduct, deject, depose, detrude, dismount, dump, jettison, kick off, precipitate, remove, shuck off, subvert, throw down, throw off, toss), припиняти роботу (close down). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: layoff.

-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.

+1 letter: layoffs, playoff.

+2 letters: playoffs.

+4 letters: affordably, officially.

+5 letters: flavorfully, offhandedly.

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