lay off

The administration has said it isn’t abolishing any majors or laying off any professors, though it is careful to specify that only “current students” can rely on such assurances.

Now that I have been laid off, my adviser has encouraged me to move all of my money to his brokerage firm.

Ishmael started as an editorial assistant and worked her way up to an associate editor position before being promoted to the publication’s style editor this October, just weeks before she was laid off.

Employers are reluctant to lay off workers because they aren’t confident they can fill roles when labor demand returns.

For college seniors, that means they are also competing against junior workers who have been recently laid off.