Lay Off Synonyms and Antonyms

To discharge employees, usually temporarily
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. fire
  2. discharge
  3. furlough
  4. let-go

Words Related to Lay Off

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Lay Off Sentence Examples

  • The doctor said his cholesterol was high and told him to lay off the fats.

  • You don't think we should lay off for a while?

  • I told her to lay off the ice cream.

  • By the end of June twenty-six warships, representing the navies of Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia, the United States, Spain, Greece and Turkey, lay off the port of Alexandria, and large numbers of refugees were embarked.

  • It lay off the main roads, and is hardly mentioned by ancient writers, though Pliny speaks of the Silis as flowing "ex montibus Tarvisanis."

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