单词 | lay off |
释义 | lay off 1. phrasal verb If workers are laid off, they are told by their employers to leave their job, usually because there is no more work for them to do. [business] 100,000 federal workers will be laid off to reduce the deficit. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE] They did not sell a single car for a month and had to lay off workers. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 2. See also layoff 3. phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for lay If you tell someone to lay off, you mean that they should stop touching or criticizing you or someone else. [informal] He went on attacking her until other passengers arrived and told him to lay off. [VERB PARTICLE] Translations: Chinese: 解雇 Japanese: 一時解雇する |
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