"rif" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rifs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riffing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riffed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riffed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "rif (third-person singular simple present rifs, present participle riffing, simple past and past participle riffed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "RIF"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 8 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges, Peter J. Frost, Reframing Organizational Culture, →ISBN, page 152:",
          "text": "This sense was expressed in a story about a friend who had been laid off (riffed) in a particularly uncaring manner.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Byron K. Simerson, Michael D. McCormick, Fired, Laid Off, Out of a Job, →ISBN:",
          "text": "If an employee is not given concrete and objective reasons for being riffed, it may be assumed the decision, \"must have been discrimination\" due to race, sex, age, ethnic background, or other wrongful basis.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Murray Farish, Inappropriate Behavior: Stories, →ISBN, page 151:",
          "text": "People are being riffed at her company, too.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative letter-case form of RIF"
      ],
      "id": "en-rif-en-verb-~sngknXa",
      "links": [
        [
          "RIF",
          "RIF#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪf"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rif"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rifs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riffing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riffed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riffed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "rif (third-person singular simple present rifs, present participle riffing, simple past and past participle riffed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "RIF"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 8 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪf",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪf/1 syllable"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges, Peter J. Frost, Reframing Organizational Culture, →ISBN, page 152:",
          "text": "This sense was expressed in a story about a friend who had been laid off (riffed) in a particularly uncaring manner.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Byron K. Simerson, Michael D. McCormick, Fired, Laid Off, Out of a Job, →ISBN:",
          "text": "If an employee is not given concrete and objective reasons for being riffed, it may be assumed the decision, \"must have been discrimination\" due to race, sex, age, ethnic background, or other wrongful basis.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Murray Farish, Inappropriate Behavior: Stories, →ISBN, page 151:",
          "text": "People are being riffed at her company, too.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative letter-case form of RIF"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "RIF",
          "RIF#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪf"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rif"
}