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furloughing
verb as in pink slip
Weak matches
- ax
- boot
- boot out
- bounce
- bump
- can
- cashier
- defrock
- depone
- depose
- deselect
- discharge
- disemploy
- disfrock
- displace
- disqualify
- drop
- fire
- furlough
- give notice to
- give someone his or her walking papers
- give someone the ax
- give someone the gate
- give someone the pink slip
- give the ax
- give the gate
- give the heave-ho
- give walking papers
- give warning
- impeach
- kick out
- lay off
- let go
- let out
- oust
- pension
- put away
- recall
- release
- retire
- sack
- send packing
- shelve
- show someone the door
- shut out
- suspend
- terminate
- turn away
- unfrock
- unseat
- wash out
verb as in dismiss
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Example Sentences
Somehow, the State Department has managed to avoid furloughing large amounts of employees during the first few days of a shutdown.
Did you see how they responded to the furloughing of the air-traffic controllers?
General Echols then issued an order furloughing the infantry soldiers for sixty days.
And yet our conscription superintendents, under orders, are busily engaged furloughing and detailing the rich slaveowners!
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On this page you'll find 110 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to furloughing, such as: ax, boot, boot out, bounce, bump, and can.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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