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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    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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    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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