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lay-off

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lay-off
noun unemployment, firing (informal) sacking (informal) dismissal, discharge
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lay-off [ˈleɪɔf] n → despido, paro forzoso
lay-off [ˈleɪɔf] n → licenciement m
lay-off [ˈleɪɔf] n → Entlassung f
lay-off [ˈleɪɔf] n → sospensione f; licenziamento
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The story was simple to him: good prospects that warranted the starting of the tunnel into the sidehill; the three months' work and the getting short of money; the lay-off while the men went away and got jobs; then the return and a new stretch of work, with the "pay" ever luring and ever receding into the mountain, until, after years of hope, the men had given up and vanished.
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