phrasal verb

Lay off

Letter LInseparable

Lay off

Make an employee redundant

Meanings

Make an employee redundant (separable [optional], International English)

Examples

The hotel LAID OFF twenty staff because tourist numbers were down.

Related

lay + …Same base verb … + offSame particle

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