layoffnoun
also lay-off uk/ˈleɪ.ɒf/us/ˈleɪ.ɑːf/layoff noun (work)
[ C often plural ] an occasion when a company stops employing someone, sometimes temporarily, because the company does not have enough money or enough work:
The recent economic crisis has led to massive layoffs.
[ C usually singular ] a period when someone is not working or playing sport:
Foster is playing again after a six-week layoff due to injury.
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Firing staff
- axe
- be out on your ear idiom
- chop
- constructive dismissal
- defrock
- delayering
- furlough
- get the push idiom
- give sb the heave-ho idiom
- grass
- heave-ho
- invalid sb out
- pension
- relieve
- removal
- remove
- retire
- sack
- sacking
- shakeout
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Passive and not working
layoff noun (FOOTBALL)
in football, a short gentle pass into a space that another player from your team can run forward into, then move forward with the ball or shoot towards the goal without slowing down or stopping
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Football/soccer
- 18-yard box
- 2 3 5
- 4 3 2 1
- 4 4 2
- 4 5 1
- crossbar
- feint
- futsal
- game 39
- game ball
- ghost goal
- give-and-go
- relegation
- scissor kick
- scrimmage
- seal dribble
- shin guard
- shin pad
- shirt pad
- stoppage
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