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lay off

verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026

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dismiss, usually for economic reasons

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Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

Wordset Dictionary

put an end to a state or an activity

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

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Variants

6 surface forms

synonym: furloughstop
pasttense: layed off
presentparticiple: laying off
thirdpersonsingular: lays off
pastparticiple: layed off

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