lay-off
A2CEFR level
15/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A period during which an employee is provided no work and no pay while the contract continues.
After four weeks of lay-off, the workers became entitled to claim a redundancy payment.
Business verb
To dismiss employees, usually for reasons of cost or reduced demand rather than performance.
The company laid off ten per cent of its workforce after the merger.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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