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# layoff

«layoff» in Mova's school dictionary: **when a company stops employing workers, often because…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a layoff, layoffs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A layoff is when a company stops employing workers, often because there is not enough work or money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/layoff/#m1)

2) (sport) A period when a player is not playing, often because of injury. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/layoff/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in news and business: «mass layoffs», «layoff notice». It tells the reader people lost jobs, often not because of anything they did wrong. «Let go» is a softer phrase (euphemism).

### examples

- The factory announced layoffs of 200 workers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/layoff/#x1)
- After the layoff, Dad looked for a new job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/layoff/#x2)
- Layoffs worried many families in the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/layoff/#x3)
- The striker returned after a long injury layoff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/layoff/#x4)
- The company tried to avoid layoffs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/layoff/#x5)
- The news reported layoffs at the car plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/layoff/#x6)

### note

Noun is one word: layoff; the verb is two words: lay off (lay off, laid off). UK often says «redundancy». In maths, after laying off 200 of 1 000 workers, 800 remain (20% laid off).

### In the corpora

- ["Workforce adjustment" means layoffs (business jargon, common in Canada).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «layoff» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/layoff/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.