Retrenchment vs Layoff - What's the difference?
retrenchment | layoff |
A reduction or curtailment; often referring to a business or government agency cutting back operations or laying off workers.
(military, dated) A defensive work constructed within a fortification to make it more defensible (by allowing defenders to retreat into and fight from it even after the enemy has taken the outer work).
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.
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Sam Sheringham
, title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton
, work=BBC
(British, football) A short pass that has been rolled in front of another player for them to kick.
As nouns the difference between retrenchment and layoff
is that retrenchment is a reduction or curtailment; often referring to a business or government agency cutting back operations or laying off workers while layoff is a dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).retrenchment
English
(wikipedia retrenchment)Noun
(en noun)layoff
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool}}