layoff

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).
A period of time when someone is unavailable for work.
A short pass that has been rolled in front of another player for them to kick.
A bet that is laid off, i.e. placed with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-layoff.wav

layoff layoffs lay-off

Deverbal from lay off.

downsizing reduction in force redundancy

lay off

postlayoff

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.

Back to search All on L Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary