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(of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, idiomatic, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hedge one's bets
Antonyms: none provided
To cease, quit, stop (doing something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, transitive
Examples
- Lay off the singing, will you! I'm trying to study.
- When are you gonna lay off smoking?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, intransitive, transitive
Examples
- Just lay off, okay! I've had enough!
- Things have been better since the boss has been laying off a little.
- I told him to lay off me but he wouldn't stop.
- Lay off it, already!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
In painting, to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat of paint so as to remove visible roller- or brush-marks, commonly using a dry brush; a similar technique, but using a loaded laying-off brush, may produce a smooth coat of paint when using a roller or the usual brush techniques would leave marks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
Topics: art, arts
Examples
- At any pro paint shop ask for laying off brushes. These are natural bristle, wide, thin brushes designed for tipping off, not for holding a paint load. (Sourced from a web forum exchange)
- He shows me how to lay off the paint — and moves his paintbrush across the section he had already painted, again and again.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tip off
Antonyms: none provided
To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
simple past of lie off
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
dismiss, usually for economic reasons
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: furlough
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
Narrower terms: downsize
put an end to a state or an activity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Quit teasing your little brother
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: drop, knock off, leave off, sign off, retire, withdraw, pull the plug, shut off, close off, cheese, call it quits, call it a day, break
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
43 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
съкращавам
(sǎkraštavam)
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Catalan:
destituir
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Czech:
propustit
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Dutch:
ontslaan
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Dutch:
de zak geven
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Finnish:
irtisanoa
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Finnish:
lomauttaa
— to dismiss workers from employment
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French:
virer
— to dismiss workers from employment
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French:
licencier
— to dismiss workers from employment
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German:
entlassen
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Greek:
απολύω
(apolýo)
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Hungarian:
elbocsát
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Hungarian:
elküld
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Hungarian:
leépít
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Italian:
licenziare
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Japanese:
解雇する
(kaiko suru)
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Polish:
zwalniać
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Polish:
zwolnić
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Portuguese:
despedir
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Romanian:
concedia
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Romanian:
da afară
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Russian:
увольнять
(uvolʹnjatʹ)
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Spanish:
despedir
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Spanish:
destituir
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Spanish:
licenciar
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Spanish:
dar de baja
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Swedish:
avskeda
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Swedish:
säga upp
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Turkish:
işten çıkarmak
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Yiddish:
אָפּזאָגן
(opzogn)
— to dismiss workers from employment
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Polish:
asekurować się
— to place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker
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Finnish:
lopettaa
— to cease, quit, stop
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Polish:
odstawiać
— to cease, quit, stop
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Polish:
odstawić
— to cease, quit, stop
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Finnish:
lopettaa
— to stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone
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Polish:
odpuszczać
— to stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone
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Polish:
odpuścić
— to stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone
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Finnish:
töpöttää
— painting: to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat
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Polish:
używać delikatnych pociągnięć
— painting: to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat
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Polish:
użyć delikatnych pociągnięć
— painting: to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat
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Finnish:
suunnitella reitti
— to plan out using a chart
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Polish:
rozplanowywać
— to plan out using a chart
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Polish:
rozplanować
— to plan out using a chart
