Sample Sentences forlayoff (editor-reviewed)
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The company is going to need another round of layoffs.layoffs = firing employees for business reasons, not for bad performance
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He'd been laid off. (source)laid off = fired due to business reasons, not performance
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The rumors were true: Sixteen writers have been laid off at Nick's magazine. (source)
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Then about a year ago, they laid off the whole department. (source)laid off = fired for business reasons, not for poor performance
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My father was hopeful for the first time since being laid off. (source)laid off = fired due to business reasons, not performance
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In the slow times—no one likes to say the word layoff—he cuts firewood and loads it on his old '63 Chevy pickup to sell to people in town.† (source)
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I definitely should have laid off on the obvious flirtation with Nick.† (source)
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But he still suffered occasional layoffs—which were sometimes prolonged enough to cause hardship.† (source)
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Suppose the husband has a job and is buying a house and there's a layoff.† (source)
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I've had to start laying off some of my wait staff.† (source)
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He'd been a machinist here for years, but got laid off a while back.† (source)
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Layoffs are coming.† (source)
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FRANCIE HAD BEEN WORKING TWO WEEKS WHEN THE LAYOFF CAME.† (source)
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Right now we're laying off people.† (source)
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He went first to Norfolk and worked at a shipyard for six months before he was laid off, then moved to New Jersey because he'd heard the economy wasn't so bad there.† (source)
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They started layoffs just about at once.† (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus
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But he laid off me. (source)laid off = stopped annoying, criticizing, or harassing
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Then when we had got pretty well stuffed, we laid off and lazied. (source)laid off = rested
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Charlotte laid off me, but Simon worked himself into a rage at Mrs. Magnus in her brown dress. (source)laid off = stop annoying, criticizing, or harassing
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God damn him, why hadn't he laid off me? (source)laid off = stopped annoying, criticizing, or harassing
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It was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing, and no books nor study. (source)laying off = resting
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Then he grabbed his coat, which he had laid off to work, picked up his gloves, and started out. (source)laid off = set aside
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Finery laid off is as unappetizing as the remains of a feast, and it occurred to Lily that, at home, her maid's vigilance had always spared her the sight of such incongruities. (source)laid off = not kept up
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So I laid off the topic, and we used the spare time to take color pictures of Caligula on my arm in front of the cathedral; until mounted officers who appeared to gallop out of the gates of a ministry drove us off the plaza. (source)laid off = stopped pressing
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When the rush or busy hours were over, they were laid off. (source)laid off = set aside
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While we laid off after breakfast to sleep up, both of us being about wore out, I got to thinking that if I could fix up some way to keep pap and the widow from trying to follow me, it would be a certainer thing than trusting to luck to get far enough off before they missed me; you see, all kinds of things might happen. (source)laid off = rested
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He had laid off his hat and gloves and was now fidgeting with the little toilet pieces which were nearest him. (source)laid off = set aside
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We laid off all the afternoon in the woods talking, and me reading the books, and having a general good time. (source)laid off = rested
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After breakfast we all laid off and talked, and the first thing that come out was that these chaps didn't know one another. (source)
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