• v.
    ⦿dismiss, usually for economic reasons
    lexical concept
  • She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:furlough
  2. enl:lay off
wn:interlingual indexili:i33762

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • furloughlay off
  • lay off