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单词 lay someone off
释义

lay someone off

Discharge a worker temporarily or permanently because of a shortage of work: the company has laid off 30 per cent of its staff...
  • This isn't the first time (and unlikely to be the last), but a group of striking workers in Korea have been laid off by text message by their employer.
  • Nonetheless, her co-workers at the hotel told her that the next day two new workers were hired to do the same job she had been laid off from.
  • His wife, a former textile worker, took care of him and his son when he was laid off from his factory.

Synonyms

make redundant, dismiss, let go, discharge, give notice to, pay off, release
informal sack, give someone the sack, fire, give someone their cards, give someone their marching orders, send packing, give someone the boot, give someone the bullet, give someone the push, give someone the (old) heave-ho, boot out
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