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Definition of Laid-off
1. Adjective. Having lost your job.
Definition of Laid-off
1. Adjective. (context: of a bet or an amount of money) Bet with another bookmaker to reduce risk. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of an employee) Made unemployed or redundant. ¹
3. Verb. (past of lay off) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laid-off
Literary usage of Laid-off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... laid off into five separate districts; Queen Anne's (Bounty shall be divided
and laid off into three separate districts; Worcester County shall be ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"(he lots "from 141 to 165 inclusive, but the whole of which lay within the French
lick réservation, as laid off by the commissioners about t lie year 1784. ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"The town is laid off in the northeast angle formed by the junction of ... No lots
were ever laid off in this bottom land, save between B, C, ..."
4. The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Benjamin Perley Poore, United States Congress. Senate (1878)
"divided and laid off into four separate districts; Somerset County shall be
divided and laid off into three separate districts; Dorchester County shall be ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Hia me t hex! was as follows: The radius of the quadrant laid off from o° gave the
... This arc bisected ana the half laid off from 60° gave the point 90°. ..."
6. The American's Guide: Comprising the Declaration of Independence; the (1843)
"... Calvert county shall be divided and In'l Dir into three separate districts;
Charles county shall be divided rad laid off into four separate districts; ..."
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