Layoff vs Expel - What's the difference?
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A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).
A period of time when someone is unavailable for work.
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(British, football) A short pass that has been rolled in front of another player for them to kick.
To eject or erupt.
(obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
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To remove from membership.
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To deport.
As a noun layoff
is a dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).As a verb expel is
to eject or erupt.layoff
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Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool}}
Synonyms
* (dismissal of employees): downsizing, reduction in forceSee also
* lay offAnagrams
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* (wikipedia "layoff")expel
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Verb
- But to the ground the idle quarrell fell: / Then he another and another did expell .
citation, page=, passage=She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.}}