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{
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"word": "take on"
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"word": "give notice"
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"word": "leave"
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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."
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"(transitive, chiefly US, idiomatic) (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."
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"roman": "sǎkraštavam",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "съкращавам"
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "destituir"
},
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "propustit"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "ontslaan"
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"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
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"word": "de zak geven"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "irtisanoa"
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"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "lomauttaa"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "virer"
},
{
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "licencier"
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{
"_dis1": "68 5 2 2 10 13",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "entlassen"
},
{
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apolýo",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "απολύω"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "elbocsát"
},
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"_dis1": "68 5 2 2 10 13",
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "elküld"
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{
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"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "leépít"
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{
"_dis1": "68 5 2 2 10 13",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "licenziare"
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{
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"code": "ja",
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"roman": "kaiko suru",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "解雇する"
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{
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "despedir"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "concedia"
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"_dis1": "68 5 2 2 10 13",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "da afară"
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{
"_dis1": "68 5 2 2 10 13",
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "uvolʹnjatʹ",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "увольнять"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "despedir"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "destituir"
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"_dis1": "68 5 2 2 10 13",
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"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "licenciar"
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"_dis1": "68 5 2 2 10 13",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "avskeda"
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"_dis1": "68 5 2 2 10 13",
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "säga upp"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "işten çıkarmak"
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"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "opzogn",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "אָפּזאָגן"
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"To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk."
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"(transitive, of a bookmaker) To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk."
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{
"text": "Lay off the singing, will you! I'm trying to study."
},
{
"text": "When are you gonna lay off smoking?"
}
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"To cease, quit, stop (doing something)."
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"(transitive, idiomatic) To cease, quit, stop (doing something)."
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{
"text": "Just lay off, okay! I've had enough!"
},
{
"text": "Things have been better since the boss has been laying off a little."
},
{
"text": "I told him to lay off me but he wouldn't stop."
},
{
"text": "Lay off it, already!"
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"To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone."
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"(transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone."
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"text": "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)"
},
{
"text": "He shows me how to lay off the paint — and moves his paintbrush across the section he had already painted, again and again."
}
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"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."
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"(transitive, intransitive, art) 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."
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"To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart."
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"(transitive) To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart."
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"word": "get the heave-ho"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"word": "get the sack"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"word": "unemployed"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English idioms",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"(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."
],
"links": [
[
"dismiss",
"dismiss"
],
[
"worker",
"worker"
],
[
"e.g.",
"e.g."
],
[
"business",
"business"
],
[
"volume",
"volume"
],
[
"fault",
"fault"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, chiefly US, idiomatic) (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."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"idiomatic",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk."
],
"links": [
[
"place",
"place"
],
[
"bet",
"bet"
],
[
"bookmaker",
"bookmaker"
],
[
"reduce",
"reduce"
],
[
"risk",
"risk"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, of a bookmaker) To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a bookmaker"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hedge one's bets"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Lay off the singing, will you! I'm trying to study."
},
{
"text": "When are you gonna lay off smoking?"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cease, quit, stop (doing something)."
],
"links": [
[
"cease",
"cease"
],
[
"quit",
"quit"
],
[
"stop",
"stop"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, idiomatic) To cease, quit, stop (doing something)."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Just lay off, okay! I've had enough!"
},
{
"text": "Things have been better since the boss has been laying off a little."
},
{
"text": "I told him to lay off me but he wouldn't stop."
},
{
"text": "Lay off it, already!"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone."
],
"links": [
[
"bother",
"bother"
],
[
"teasing",
"tease"
],
[
"pester",
"pester"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Art"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "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)"
},
{
"text": "He shows me how to lay off the paint — and moves his paintbrush across the section he had already painted, again and again."
}
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"links": [
[
"transitive",
"transitive"
],
[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
],
[
"art",
"art#Noun"
],
[
"painting",
"painting"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, intransitive, art) 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."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tip off"
}
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"art",
"arts"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/En-au-lay_off.ogg/En-au-lay_off.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/En-au-lay_off.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "The following synonyms carry a harsher context than \"lay off\"",
"word": "can"
},
{
"sense": "The following synonyms carry a harsher context than \"lay off\"",
"word": "dismiss"
},
{
"sense": "The following synonyms carry a harsher context than \"lay off\"",
"word": "fire"
},
{
"sense": "The following synonyms carry a harsher context than \"lay off\"",
"word": "sack"
},
{
"sense": "The following synonyms carry a harsher context than \"lay off\"",
"word": "terminate"
},
{
"sense": "The following synonyms carry a harsher context than \"lay off\"",
"word": "give the axe"
},
{
"sense": "The following synonyms carry a harsher context than \"lay off\"",
"word": "give the boot"
},
{
"english": "someone",
"sense": "The following synonyms carry a harsher context than \"lay off\"",
"word": "give their cards"
},
{
"sense": "The following synonyms carry a harsher context than \"lay off\"",
"word": "give the chop"
},
{
"sense": "The following synonyms carry a harsher context than \"lay off\"",
"word": "give the elbow"
},
{
"sense": "The following synonyms carry a harsher context than \"lay off\"",
"word": "give the old heave-ho"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"word": "axe"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"tags": [
"euphemistic"
],
"word": "decruit"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"word": "dehire"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"word": "discard"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"word": "discharge"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"tags": [
"euphemistic"
],
"word": "downsize"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "give someone the boot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"word": "give someone their cards"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"tags": [
"UK",
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "give someone the heave-ho"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"tags": [
"UK",
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "give someone the old heave-ho"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"tags": [
"US",
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "lay off"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"tags": [
"euphemistic"
],
"word": "let go"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"tags": [
"euphemistic",
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "let someone go"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"word": "make redundant"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"word": "pink slip"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"word": "promote to customer"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"word": "retrench"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "serve notice"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "shit-can"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"word": "term"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "throw out"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:lay off",
"tags": [
"euphemistic"
],
"word": "unhire"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sǎkraštavam",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "съкращавам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "destituir"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "propustit"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "ontslaan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "de zak geven"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "irtisanoa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "lomauttaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "virer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "licencier"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "entlassen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apolýo",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "απολύω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "elbocsát"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "elküld"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "leépít"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "licenziare"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kaiko suru",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "解雇する"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "despedir"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "concedia"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "da afară"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uvolʹnjatʹ",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "увольнять"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "despedir"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "destituir"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "licenciar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "avskeda"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "säga upp"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "işten çıkarmak"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "opzogn",
"sense": "to dismiss workers from employment",
"word": "אָפּזאָגן"
}
],
"word": "lay off"
}
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