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Definition of 'lay off'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off
put an end to a state or an activity
"Quit teasing your little brother"

2. (verb) furlough, lay off
dismiss, usually for economic reasons
"She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized"

Definition of 'lay off'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) lay off
to stop employing sb
1400 workers were laid off in February.

2. lay off
to stop doing or having
Maybe you should lay off the alcohol for a while.

Translation of 'lay off'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to dismiss (employees) temporarily Because of a shortage of orders, the firm has laid off a quarter of its workforce.
Afrikaans: afdank	Arabic: يُسَرِّحُ العُمّال مؤقتا	Bulgarian: разпускам
Brazilian: despedir	Czech: propustit z práce	German: entlassen
Danish: afskedige	Greek: απολύω προσωρινά	Spanish: despedir
Estonian: sundpuhkusele saatma	Farsi: موقتا از کار بیکار کردن	Finnish: lomauttaa
French: licencier	Hebrew: לְפַטֵר	Hindi: काम छोड़ देना
Croatian: privremeno otpustiti	Hungarian: elbocsát	Indonesian: memecat
Icelandic: segja upp	Italian: sospendere (dal lavoro)	Japanese: 一時解雇する
Korean: 해고하다	Lithuanian: laikinai atleisti	Latvian: atlaist [] no darba
Malay: memecat	Dutch: tijdelijk ontslaan	Norwegian: permittere
Polish: zwolnić czasowo	Persian: موقتا از کار بیکار کردن	Pashto: د لنډى مودى لپاره له دندى
Portuguese: despedir	Romanian: a concedia temporar	Russian: (временно) увольнять
Slovak: (dočasne) vypovedať z prá	Slovenian: začasno odpustiti	Serbian: otpustiti
Swedish: friställa	Thai: ไล่ออก	Turkish: işten çıkarmak/atmak
Taiwanese: 遣散	Ukrainian: звільнити з роботи тимчас	Urdu: ملازمت سے علا حدہ کرنا
Vietnamese: tạm sa thải	Chinese: 暂时解雇，裁员
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