1 an act of making people unemployed because there is no more work left for them to do:
lay-offs in the factory
2 a period of time when sb is not working or not doing sth that they normally do regularly:
an eight-week lay-off with a broken leg
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lay-off is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is lay-off a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, lay-off is tagged as noun.
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