layoffs是什么意思？

layoffs

• n. 临时解雇( layoff的名词复数 )，停工，停止活动；

例句

• Furloughs, layoffs, burdened bosses, and stressed coworkers: Tension can stifle your office and kill productivity. 休假 、 裁员 、 承受超负荷的老板 、 处于高压中的同事: 紧张会使你的办公室生活窒息,扼杀你的产能.
• Stock prices broke when the firm suddenly announced layoffs. 当公司突然宣布裁员时，股票价格便大跌
• Textile companies announced 2000 fresh layoffs last week. 各纺织公司上周宣布再次裁员两千人.
• Those may take the form of sackings redundancies, temporary layoffs or retirements. 这些形式有开除,作为编余人员, 暂时解雇或退休.
• They both made full recoveries after lengthy injury layoffs. 他俩因受伤长期休养后都已完全康复。
• It will close more than 200 stores nationwide resulting in the layoffs of an estimated 2,000 employees. 它将关闭全国200多家店铺，估计会有2,000名员工因此失业。
• Schulte warned government and industrial leaders that those who even venture to think about mass layoffs are playing with fire. 舒尔特警告政府和业界领袖说，哪怕只是动动大规模裁员念头的人都是在玩火。

英语六级真题

Mass layoffs and plant closings have drawn plenty of headlines and public debate over the years, and they still occasionally do.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  （通常指因工作岗位不足的）解雇，裁员，下岗
  When there are layoffs in a company, workers are told by their employers to leave their job, usually because there is no more work for them in the company.
  例句
  It will close more than 200 stores nationwide resulting in the layoffs of an estimated 2,000 employees. 它将关闭全国200多家店铺，估计会有2,000名员工因此失业。
• N-COUNT
  休养；疗养；养伤
  A layoff is a period of time in which people do not work or take part in their normal activities, often because they are resting or are injured.
  例句
  They both made full recoveries after lengthy injury layoffs. 他俩因受伤长期休养后都已完全康复。