lay off
phrasal verblay off | lay off somebody/something
- (informal) used to tell somebody to stop doing something
- Lay off me will you—it's nothing to do with me.
- lay off doing something Lay off bullying Jack.
lay off something
- (informal) to stop using something
- I think you'd better lay off fatty foods for a while.
lay somebody off
- to stop employing somebody because there is not enough work for them to do synonym make somebody redundant
- 200 workers at the factory have been laid off.