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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb lay off has 2 senses

• lay off(v = verb.stative) cease, discontinue, give up, quit, stop - put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s VERB-ing

• lay off(v = verb.social) furlough - dismiss, usually for economic reasons; "She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized"
is one way to can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate
Derived form noun layoff₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody

THESAURUS

lay off

abandon, abort, aestivate, belay, blueprint, boot, bounce, bound, break, breathe, bump, bust, call a strike, call it quits, can, cancel, cashier, cease, chart, circle in, circumscribe, close down, close shop, cut it out, define, defrock, degrade, delimit, delimitate, demarcate, demote, deplume, depose, deprive, desist, determine, diagram, disbar, discharge, discontinue, disemploy, dismiss, displace, displume, drop it, drum out, enclose, end, expel, fire, fix, furlough, give over, give the ax, give the gate, go on strike, graph, halt, have done with, have nothing on, hibernate, hold, kick, kick upstairs, knock it off, knock off, lay by, lay out, lay to, leave off, let go, let out, lie by, lie dormant, lie fallow, lie idle, lie off, lie to, lie up, make redundant, map, map out, mark boundaries, mark off, mark out, mark the periphery, measure off, measure out, pace off, pause, pension off, plot, plot out, quit, read out of, recess, refrain, release, relinquish, remove, renounce, replace, retire, ride at anchor, rope off, rule off, sack, scrub, secure, separate forcibly, set off, set out, set the limit, shut down, shut up shop, sketch, sketch out, specify, spell, stake out, stay, step off, stop, stop for breath, strike, strip, superannuate, surplus, surround, suspend, take a break, take a recess, take a rest, take five, take ten, take time out, terminate, turn off, turn out, unfrock, walk out

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