Definition of "lay-off" []

• Alternative spelling of layoff. (noun)

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• "As many as 5,000 more teachers may receive lay-off notices this Spring."
• "However, teacher tenure and seniority is not the best way to determine salary increases, placement, and lay-off decisions either."
• "This news was reported on the very same day that the editors of the Washington Post very confidently pooh-poohed the very idea that a teacher lay-off crisis would ever manifest itself."