laid-off
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4.0
- adjective
- /leɪd ɔf/
- US
:
despedido
- People were being laid off everywhere.
- laid-off workers
- laid-off employees
- laid-off teachers
Let's say the people get laid off right from their restaurant job.
- Let's say the people get laid off right from their restaurant job.
- These Blackstone guys possibly need to hire some of the laid off crypto market rocketers.
- And at the end of your life, what you will be most upset about is not that you were laid off, but how upset you were about it.
- So I had a start up here in the city, was working there until May, and then got laid off.
- Some of the recently laid off tech workers might opt to start their own companies too and bring new products and ideas to the market.
- I got a friend who was laid off from a job, I want to say six months ago.
Examples
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Your father's been laid off!
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"Ronald and I are just going through some hard times, you know, with him laid off and all."
Fiction book (1996) -
I got a friend who was laid off from a job, I want to say six months ago.
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Will they give you some money for being laid off and all?
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Three months ago, my father got laid off.
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Well, to be honest... ...I was laid off from my job about two months ago.
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I got laid off in April.
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In the United States, teachers are laid off for reasons of excess supply pretty much at will.
Academic text (1994) -
Large numbers of people had been laid off because of the mechanization of the industry.
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My brother was recently laid-off after the company downsized its workforce.
Synonyms
274
1.7
Without work and looking for a job
124
1.8
Without a job and trying to find one
23
1.9
Not having a job
1
8.1
No longer working at a job because the company laid you off
No longer working for a company because they lost their job
A person who no longer has their job because they were fired
Antonyms
How Employed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Laid-off comes from the verb lay 'to put down' and the word off 'away', giving the image of a worker being moved away from their place at work. So, someone who is laid-off has lost their job because the company needed to cut staff or close a department, not because they did the job badly.