layoff

See also: lay off and lay-off

English

Etymology

From the verb phrase lay off.

Noun

layoff (plural layoffs)

1. (chiefly US) A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).
2. A period of time when someone is unavailable for work.
   • 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool

3. (British, soccer) A short pass that has been rolled in front of another player for them to kick.

Synonyms

• (dismissal of employees): downsizing, reduction in force, redundancy

Translations

dismissal of employees

• Armenian: կրճատում (hy) (krčatum)
• Bulgarian: съкращение (bg) n (sǎkraštenie)
• Danish: fyring c (dismissal), afskedigelse c (dismissal), fyringsrunde c (downsizing of multiple employees)
• Finnish: irtisanominen (fi) (permanent), lomautus (fi) (temporal)
• Greek: προσωρινή απόλυση f (prosoriní apólysi)
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• Hungarian: leépítés (hu), létszámleépítés
• Interlingua: disopero
• Russian: (dismissal) увольне́ние (ru) n (uvolʹnénije), (downsizing) сокраще́ние (ru) n (sokraščénije)
• Spanish: despido (es)
• Swedish: uppsägning (sv) c

See also

• lay off

Further reading

• layoff on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Offaly, offlay