layoff

See also: lay off and lay-off

English

layoff (plural layoffs)

(chiefly US) A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).
A period of time when someone is unavailable for work.
- 1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post‎^[1]:
  One of the muscles on the point of the shoulder was torn loose and it didn't need more than a glance to see that Mr. Hickey was in for a long lay-off. He wouldn't pitch again for quite a spell, if ever;
- 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC‎^[2]:
  But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool
- 2021 July 28, Ben Jones, “When BR got cracking after withdrawal of 'Blue Trains'”, in RAIL, number 932, page 32:
  After a ten-month layoff, during which extensive testing had taken place in conjunction with AEI, the 'Blue Trains' resumed full operation on October 2 1961, [...].
(British, soccer) A short pass that has been rolled in front of another player for them to kick.
A bet that is laid off, i.e. placed with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.

dismissal of employees

Armenian: կրճատում (hy) (krčatum)
Bulgarian: съкращение (bg) n (sǎkraštenie)
Catalan: acomiadament m
Chinese: 裁員／裁员 (zh) (cáiyuán)
Danish: fyring c (dismissal), afskedigelse c (dismissal), fyringsrunde c (downsizing of multiple employees)
Finnish: irtisanominen (fi) (permanent), lomautus (fi) (temporal)
French: chômage technique (fr) m (temporal), licenciement économique (fr) m (permanent)
German: Arbeitsunterbrechung f
Greek: προσωρινή απόλυση f (prosoriní apólysi)
Hungarian: leépítés (hu), létszámleépítés (hu)
Interlingua: disopero
Italian: esubero (it) m
Korean: 일시 해고(一時解雇) (ilsi haego)
Polish: zwolnienie (pl) n
Russian: (dismissal) увольне́ние (ru) n (uvolʹnénije), (downsizing) сокраще́ние (ru) n (sokraščénije)
Spanish: despido (es), recorte de personal, reducción de plantel f
Swedish: uppsägning (sv) c
Ukrainian: скорочення (uk) n pl (skoročennja), звільнення n pl (zvilʹnennja)