| Main Entry: | layoff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dismissal from job or responsibility |
Synonyms: |
cutback, discharge, early retirement, respite, unemployment |
Antonyms: |
employment, hiring |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interruption of activity |
Synonyms: |
apnea, blow, breather, breathing space, caesura, coffee break, cutoff, downtime, halt, hiatus, interlude, intermission, interval, lacuna, layoff, letup, lull, pause, recess, respite, rest, suspension, ten, time off, time out |
| Notes: | to brake is to slow or stop while break is to cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or crack |
Antonyms: |
continuation, continuity |
| Main Entry: | cessation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ending |
Synonyms: |
abeyance, arrest, break, break-off, breather, cease, ceasing, close, conclusion, cutoff, desistance, discontinuance, downtime, end, finish, freeze*, grinding halt, halt, halting, hiatus, intermission, interruption, interval, layoff, let-up, pause, recess, remission, respite, rest, screaming halt, standstill, stay, stop, stoppage, suspension, termination, time off, time-out |
Antonyms: |
beginning, commencement, start |
| Main Entry: | dismissal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | release |
Synonyms: |
adjournment, banishment, bounce, brush-off, cold shoulder, congé, deportation, deposal, deposition, discharge, dislodgment, displacement, dispossession, dissolution, door*, end, eviction, exile, exorcism, expatriation, expulsion, freedom, freeing, housecleaning, kiss-off, layoff, liberation, marching orders, notice, old heave-ho, ostracism, ouster, permission, pink slip, relegation, removal, suspension |
Antonyms: |
acceptance, appointment, employment, hiring, maintainance, retention, welcome |
| Main Entry: | economy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving, frugality |
Synonyms: |
abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift, thriftiness |
Antonyms: |
spending, squandering |
| Main Entry: | furlough |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leave of absence |
Synonyms: |
R&, layoff, leave, liberty, rest and recreation, rest and recuperation, rest and relaxation |
| Main Entry: | halt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end, stoppage |
Synonyms: |
arrest, break, break-off, close, cutoff, freeze*, grinding halt, impasse, interruption, layoff, letup, pause, screaming halt, screeching halt, stand, standstill, stop, termination |
Antonyms: |
continuation, endurance, go, perseverence, start |
| Main Entry: | holiday |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebratory day; time off |
Synonyms: |
anniversary, break, celebration, day of rest, feast, festival, festivity, fete, few days off, fiesta, gala, gone fishing, holy day, jubilee, layoff, leave, liberty, long weekend, recess, red-letter day, saint's day, vacation |
| Main Entry: | interim |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interval |
Synonyms: |
breach, break, breather, breathing spell, coffee break, cutoff, downtime, gap, hiatus, interlude, interregnum, interruption, lacuna, layoff, letup, meantime, meanwhile, pause, take ten, time*, time-out |
Antonyms: |
continuation, permanence |
| Main Entry: | intermission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, recess |
Synonyms: |
abeyance, abeyancy, break-off, breather, breathing spell, cessation, doldrums, dormancy, downtime, interim, interlude, interregnum, interruption, interval, latency, layoff, let-up, lull, parenthesis, pause, quiescence, quiescency, respite, rest, spell, stop, stoppage, suspense, suspension, time, time-out, wait |