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layoff

[ley-awf, -of]

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noun

the act of dismissing employees, especially temporarily.

a period of enforced unemployment or inactivity.

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Origin:
1885–90, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase lay off

Can be confused: lay off, layoff.

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layoff

also lay off; 1889, "rest, respite;" from lay (-) + off. Via seasonal labor with periodic down time, it came to have a sense of "temporary release from employment," and by 1960s was being used somewhat euphemistically for permanent releases of masses of workers by employers.

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