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Synonyms for lay off
lay off
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Princeton's WordNet
discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay offverb
put an end to a state or an activity
"Quit teasing your little brother"
Synonyms:
spare, leave office, allow, block up, abandon, drop by the wayside, forfeit, vacate, halt, release, resign, forgo, block off, hold back, end, kick, throw in, finish, block, surrender, part with, fall by the wayside, cede, turn back, waive, throw overboard, stop over, break off, break, throw in the towel, step down, give up, depart, stop, relinquish, blockade, hold on, deliver, arrest, bar, cease, barricade, renounce, take leave, discontinue, contain, drop out, free, chuck up the sponge, kibosh, intercept, terminate, furlough, forego, dispense with, quit, foreswear, checkfurlough, lay offverb
dismiss, usually for economic reasons
"She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized"
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#42 | free | |
#272 | check | |
#317 | end | |
#625 | release | |
#1038 | stop | |
#1042 | bar | |
#1202 | allow | |
#1618 | break | |
#1662 | block | |
#2674 | finish | |
#2700 | contain | |
#3338 | deliver | |
#5089 | kick | |
#6027 | quit | |
#6173 | spare | |
#7523 | arrest | |
#10105 | depart | |
#10518 | terminate | |
#11444 | cease | |
#11564 | surrender | |
#12423 | redundant | |
#13959 | halt | |
#14530 | abandon | |
#18763 | waive | |
#19661 | resign | |
#19862 | intercept | |
#22808 | discontinue | |
#26805 | blockade | |
#29516 | forfeit | |
#36540 | vacate | |
#41807 | relinquish | |
#42606 | renounce | |
#43279 | barricade | |
#49362 | forgo | |
#49931 | forego | |
#66067 | cede | |
#75117 | furlough | |
#229254 | kibosh |
How to use lay off in a sentence?
If we stop construction water, that act alone would lay off about 20% of our county, we’ve made a commitment that we’re going to make sure to be good stewards of every single drop of water that’s already here and make sure we’re utilizing that. But when we look at our long-term growth and you know how much water we need, (the Lake Powell Pipeline) is still in our long-term plan.
The proposed tariffs on products that make up 80 percent of our business would be catastrophic. We would be forced to lay off employees and raise prices to consumers, the factory jobs that build our products never existed in America.
As a business, we kind of have to just roll with the punches and a lot of those people that we had to lay off were very focused on the transport sector of the business.
Thirty-three thousand small business hotels across the country are facing the difficult decision right now whether to close their doors and lay off millions of people over the next few days.
Just trying to get the barrel to the ball, see it down, she does spot a couple down in the zone. So just doing our best to lay off the rise ball, and when she does miss, to make sure we’re ready for that pitch.
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