as in dismissal
the termination of the employment of an employee or a work force often temporarily
the landscaping company usually has to put most of its personnel on furlough during the extremely slow winter months
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as in to excess
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as in to bum
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Recent Examples of furlough
Richard A. Webster,
ProPublica,
22 May 2026
Public pressure and her deteriorating health led to releases and furloughs.
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Irwin Cotler,
Time,
8 May 2026
Olivia Evans,
Louisville Courier Journal,
27 Jan. 2026
Relief also came for DHS employees on Thursday when it was announced that USDA will provide administrative funding for the SNAP program, meaning the state won't furlough 1,500 employees in its Division of County Operations on Friday.
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Daniel McFadin,
Arkansas Online,
7 Nov. 2025
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Noun
One that would restore medical parole and medical furlough as exceptions to the elimination of parole recently passed.
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Richard A. Webster,
ProPublica,
22 May 2026
Public pressure and her deteriorating health led to releases and furloughs.
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Irwin Cotler,
Time,
8 May 2026
Verb
In November 2025, Western Global announced plans to furlough its pilots due to the prolonged grounding of the fleet.
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Olivia Evans,
Louisville Courier Journal,
27 Jan. 2026
Relief also came for DHS employees on Thursday when it was announced that USDA will provide administrative funding for the SNAP program, meaning the state won't furlough 1,500 employees in its Division of County Operations on Friday.
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Daniel McFadin,
Arkansas Online,
7 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for furlough
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Despite her dismissal, Keyser appeared in the first 20 minutes of Thursday’s episode, sharing a chat and a kiss with partner Zach Georgiou, and later slept in the bed with him.
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Following Mendoza's dismissal, fan anger seems to be directed at Stearns, the man in charge of building the roster.
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Over the past few months my wife has begun drinking to excess every evening.
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You’ve been quoted as saying that that is really what the film is about — not so much drinking to excess as embracing the uncontrollable.
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Some were drawn first to the language and its interna ideo, only to later realize the travel benefits involved; others had learned the language specifically to bum around.
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That means, as some critics of the ban have pointed out, that 18-year-olds will almost certainly bum cigarettes from older friends—the same way younger teens have acquired them since time immemorial.
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Michael Reaves / Getty Images The decision to hire May fell in the lap of Mavericks president Masai Ujiri, who took over the team last month following the firing of former GM Nico Harrison in November.
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Johnson’s Office of Community Safety has seen major and sudden changes in recent months, particularly in Johnson’s sudden firing of Gatewood.
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Corporations lay off workers en masse in hopes of replicating their labor with LLMs.
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But now that the bill is due, some policymakers are having to raise taxes, and in the worst cases, cut district budgets and lay off educators.
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The entire day felt dehumanizing, as if her nearly eight years with the company, her medical problems and her physical pain had been reduced to nothing more than malingering and scattered incidents of tardiness.
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Goldstein, who did not return a message seeking comment, practices in Chicago and has lectured on the topic of malingering, according to a resume posted online.
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Previously, the deficit had been estimated to total around $100 million, leading the school board in February to approve hundreds of layoffs and other spending cuts.
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On Thursday, university officials said the latest round of layoffs was a last resort, which mostly impacted administrative workers.
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In May, Stewart axed two Las Vegas residency performances while recovering from a sinus infection and undergoing vocal rest.
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Teamster leadership axed Baird and Cirkelis from their roles in the boycott in 1975 over their ties to the United Farm Workers, and Local 888 was dissolved not long after.
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“Furlough.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/furlough. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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