Lay-off Definition

verb

(of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume, often with a severance package.

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(of a bookmaker) To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.

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(idiomatic) To cease, quit, stop (doing something).

Lay off the singing, will you! I'm trying to study.
When are you gonna lay off smoking?
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(intransitive, idiomatic) To stop bothering, annoying, teasing, pestering, pressuring, being aggressive with, or hovering over someone; to leave (someone) alone.

Just lay off, okay! I've had enough!
Things have been better since the boss has been laying off a little.
I told him to lay off me but he wouldn't stop.
Lay off it, already!
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noun

Alternative spelling of layoff.

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Other Word Forms of Lay-off

Noun

Singular:
lay-off
Plural:
lay-offs

Lay-off Sentence Examples

  • The doctor said his cholesterol was high and told him to lay off the fats.

  • By the end of June twenty-six warships, representing the navies of Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia, the United States, Spain, Greece and Turkey, lay off the port of Alexandria, and large numbers of refugees were embarked.

  • You don't think we should lay off for a while?

  • I told her to lay off the ice cream.

  • It lay off the main roads, and is hardly mentioned by ancient writers, though Pliny speaks of the Silis as flowing "ex montibus Tarvisanis."

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