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lay-off

Flag: gbEnglishOxford English Thesaurus
lay-off
noun
a strike in protest over lay-offs:
redundancy, dismissal, discharge;
notice;
unemployment;
informal sacking, firing;
marching orders;
the sack, the boot, the bullet, the axe, the (old) heave-ho, the bounce;
British the elbow.
▷antonyms recruitment, hiring.
lay-off Oxford Dictionary of English