Sample Sentences for
layoff
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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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    But he still suffered occasional layoffs—which were sometimes prolonged enough to cause hardship.†  (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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    Layoffs are coming.†  (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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    Henry had two checks—a week's extra pay for being laid off, and his regular check from the Jewel Bearing Plant.†  (source)
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    They started layoffs just about at once.†  (source)
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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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    Brothers was smiling and laying off him.†  (source)
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    Ishmael recollected his father at work here, his neatly arranged manila folders spread out before him, his yellow legal pad laid off to his right, an array of heavily scrawled index cards, onionskin typing paper in both goldenrod and white, a thick dictionary on a stand, a thicker thesaurus, and a heavy black Underwood typewriter, the desk lamp pulled down low over the keys and his father blinking through his bifocals, slow and expressionless, absorbed in his words, afloat in that pool of soft light.†  (source)
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    In a few weeks, let's say at the end of August, Erika will call a meeting to warn you about layoffs.†  (source)
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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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