lay off

to stop using or doing something.

• You should really lay off that. It'll ruin your health.
• My doctor told me to lay off the liquor so I have this uneasy impatient feeling.

to stop employing someone, to dismiss workers.

• Suddenly, 100 workers were laid off.
• General Motors laid off 76,000 workers.
• Many workers were laid off at that plant.
• They laid off many workers at that point.
• The workers were laid off for three weeks.
• General Motors laid off its 76,000 workers.
• The automobile company laid off 300 workers.
• General Motors laid off 76,000 of its workers.
• He was laid off until there was more work to do.
• The factory has laid off some three hundred workers.
• What will happen with those who are laid off from work?
• Instead of laying off these workers, why don't we just cut their hours?
• The company laid off twenty percent of its work force; therefore, expenses decreased.
• The company laid off five people.
• The company was forced to lay off many employees.
• George was laid off when his company cut back production last year.
• The laborer was layed off for 3 weeks.
• The laborers were layed off for 3 weeks.
• I lost my insurance when I was laid off at the plant.
• I had to make up for three other employees, who were laid off yesterday.
• Last month, they had to lay off several hundred employees in the factory.
• As the recession set in, temporary employees were laid off one after another.
• Tom couldn't completely rule out the possibility that he might be laid off from work.
• He laid off his secretary.