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
Paul Davidson, USA Today, 11 June 2025
The district laid off and furloughed employees during that time, while scrapping plans to renovate or rebuild many decaying schools.
—Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 22 May 2025
Melissa Santos, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
An emergency motion for temporary furlough filed in federal court on Tuesday, June 10, and obtained by PEOPLE alleges that three officials with the Bureau of Prisons devised a plot to have Kelly killed by a fellow inmate.
—Chris Spargo, People.com, 11 June 2025
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Noun
During the pandemic, the sector laid off or furloughed 373,000 employees, or 36% of its workforce.
—Paul Davidson, USA Today, 11 June 2025
The district laid off and furloughed employees during that time, while scrapping plans to renovate or rebuild many decaying schools.
—Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 22 May 2025
Verb
What's next: The two chambers will have to resolve their differences, including whether to impose furloughs on state employees, something included in the Senate budget but not the House spending plan.
—Melissa Santos, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
An emergency motion for temporary furlough filed in federal court on Tuesday, June 10, and obtained by PEOPLE alleges that three officials with the Bureau of Prisons devised a plot to have Kelly killed by a fellow inmate.
—Chris Spargo, People.com, 11 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for furlough
Noun
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But the main disagreement with them is not in their correct dismissal of deregulation as the cause of the carnage, but in their ongoing support of government intervention, including bailouts.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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The union representing most of the agency’s employees sued, winning a preliminary injunction to halt the dismissals.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
Verb
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Over the past few months, my wife has begun drinking to excess every evening.—
Amy Dickinson,
Washington Post,
17 July 2023
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Over the past few months my wife has begun drinking to excess every evening.—
Amy Dickinson,
Anchorage Daily News,
17 July 2023
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The graduate is not only bummed about the sister’s absence.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
People.com,
25 May 2025
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Everyone — from those actually paying to the ones still bumming a log-in — wants to know how Netflix and other streaming services’ crackdowns on password sharing affect them.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
20 May 2025
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In a new interview with i Paper, the legendary guitarist and songwriter opened up about the chaotic sequence of events earlier this year involving Starkey’s firing, rehiring and eventual departure.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
22 June 2025
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The effort to give the president more direct control over the hiring and firing of civil servants is broadly opposed.—
Steven Kull,
Twin Cities,
21 June 2025
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Thousands of private government consultants laid off during the Trump administration’s cost-cutting crusade are increasingly flooding a shrinking labor market.—
Ani Freedman,
Fortune,
20 June 2025
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In December 2021, the company abruptly laid off 900 employees via a Zoom call, and the CEO's delivery was widely criticized as insensitive.—
Tony Butler-Sims,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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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.—
Greg Jaffe,
Anchorage Daily News,
18 June 2023
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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.—
Matt Hamilton,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2023
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The Accenture team did not explore whether resilience was achievable through contingent or gig workforces that could reduce the boom-bust cycles and demoralizing effects of layoffs.—
Joe McKendrick,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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In March, Audacy conducted a broad round of layoffs, cutting about 200 employees across divisions.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
26 June 2025
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That new boom idled for a decade until Vladimir Putin created a commodities frenzy by invading Ukraine, one of the world’s most important ag exporters.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
15 June 2025
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Port roads jammed with diesel trucks, oil refineries processing fuel, ships idling to be unloaded, make for some of the worst air in the state.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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“Furlough.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/furlough. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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