英 [ˈleɪ ɒf]
解雇（员工）；裁员
停止做某事；停止干涉
lay off // [ laying laid lays ]
动词词组 If workers are laid off, they are told by their employers to leave their job, usually because there is no more work for them to do. 解雇
100,000 federal workers will be laid off to reduce the deficit.
10万名联邦工作人员将被解雇以减少赤字。
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最后他希望公司让他走的原因不是解雇(fire)而是裁员(lay off)。这两者的区别就是前者是对你做的工作不满，后者是因为经济形式不好。
The company is to lay off 1,520 workers as part of a restructuring.
作为改组的一部分，这家公司将解雇1520名工人。
Lay off me will you—it's nothing to do with me.
别找我好不好—这事与我无关。
I think you'd better lay off fatty foods for a while.
我认为你最好暂时别吃高脂食物。
SUD and other critics claim France Telecom used extremely coercive methods to lay off 22,000 workers between 2006 and 2008.
VOA : standard.2010.04.11
He and his wife had to lay off workers, reduce inventory and stay open longer hours just to remain in business.
VOA : standard.2009.12.20
On the three thousand two hundred eighty-seventh night of your Parisian affair, as I lay in Simois-mud picking vermin off the wound I got that day from cunning Pandarus, exhaustion closed my eyes.
在你和帕里斯发生关系后的第三千两百八十七夜,那个日子是狡猾的潘达洛斯告诉我的,我正躺在西摩伊斯河岸边，拣伤口上的虱子,疲惫让我闭上了眼睛。
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"That means they are less likely to lay off workers." Other glimmers of economic hope appeared Tuesday.
VOA : standard.2009.07.14
Two big U.S. oil companies merge and lay off young Muslim workers who turn into terrorists.
He had to lay off dozens of staffers, you know, lower level of staffers.
Or should we let the private banking system take over and have regulators lay off?