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layoffsnounpl. of layoff the termination of the employment of an employee or a work force often temporarilyeven senior employees lost their jobs in the massive layoff axes, discharges, dismissals, furloughs, redundancies(chiefly British) pink slipsbirds(chiefly British), boots, bum's rushes, firings, heave-hos, sacksclosings, shutdownsshakeouts, shake-ups callbacks, recalls, reemployments(or re-employments), rehires a period of often involuntary inactivity or idlenessafter such a long layoff the boxer badly needed to get back into shape downtimes, time-outs, winters breaks, breathers, breaths, interruptions, lulls, pauses, recessesabeyances, doldrums, dormancies, latencies, quiescences, suspenses, suspensions |