Čo znamená layoff v angličtine a aká je definícia layoff?

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layoff Význam & definícia

0 an occasion when a company stops employing someone, sometimes temporarily, because the company does not have enough money or enough work:
- The recent economic crisis has led to massive layoffs.
- Foster is playing again after a six-week layoff due to injury.
1 in football, a short gentle pass into a space that another player from your team can run forward into, then move forward with the ball or shoot towards the goal without slowing down or stopping
2 an act of ending a worker’s job, esp. when the worker has done nothing wrong:
- Executives say no layoffs are expected as a result of the merger.
3 the act of ending a worker's job, sometimes temporarily, usually because there is not enough work to do:
- Workers have been warned to expect further layoffs.
- Layoff notices are expected when business slows after Christmas.
4 a period when someone is not working because their job ended or they were forced to leave it:
- long/short/temporary layoff A long layoff can help a budget but it can make workers less productive when they return.

About half of the layoffs took place in the construction materials and capital goods industries.
Were these responsible for peculiar labor market phenomena like layoffs and the reluctance of employers to reduce wages?
With the former, layoffs are likely to consist of predominantly low-quality firm-worker matches, whereas with the latter, both high- and low-quality matches may be involved.
With the sharp rise in layoffs in the early 1930s the chances of re-employment declined for all the unemployed.
Older workers are often targeted for layoffs, sometimes with redundancy packages.
Traditional mechanisms of adjustment (limiting layoffs to non-core sectors, transfer of the lowest value-added sectors overseas) have proved inadequate to the crisis.
Central to these reforms was the legalization of layoffs for 'managerial reasons'.
Apart from legalizing layoffs, the labour 'dispatch' system was introduced.