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noun

plural of furlough
as in dismissals
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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furloughs

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verb

present tense third-person singular of furlough
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as in excesses

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Recent Examples of furloughs
Noun
The district could be forced into hiring freezes, spending restrictions, furloughs, program reductions or massive midyear layoffs after students have already formed relationships with their teachers and support staff. — Angel Gutierrez, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026 Police, firefighters, paramedics, and 911 employees are exempt from the furloughs. — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 30 June 2026 The savings the city will get from the unpaid worker furloughs during the first year of the deal — the new fiscal year starting July 1 — nearly covers the cost of the 2% raises and other benefits employees get that first year. — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2026 The furloughs come just weeks before the museum’s annual Juneteenth celebration, as well as the third anniversary of its opening on June 27. — News Desk, Artforum, 12 June 2026 Public pressure and her deteriorating health led to releases and furloughs. — Irwin Cotler, Time, 8 May 2026 In Cambodia, worker groups spoke of furloughs, cut shifts and job losses. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 28 Apr. 2026 No layoffs or furloughs are planned and vendors will be paid. — Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026 No employee layoffs or furloughs are planned and vendors will be paid on schedule, according to QVC Group. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for furloughs
  1. dismissals
  2. downsizes
  3. bums
  4. firings
  5. axes
  6. kicks back
  7. layoffs
  8. retires
Noun
  • The true drama in the faction has centered around Morgan’s dismissals of Perez, the group’s young star who has all the potential in the world to be a world champion one day.
    — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • But there are also several reasons to suggest he simply couldn’t be trusted to lead the red-ball side — from his off-field antics in New Zealand last winter, to his penchant for daft dismissals at crucial moments in games.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Definition of dismissals
Verb
  • The movie follows Lee Byung-hun (Squid Game) as Yoo Man-su, a man who is fired from his job at a paper manufacturing company after an American company buys out his company and downsizes.
    — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
  • His loving, pragmatic wife, Mi-ri (Son Ye-jin), gamely downsizes their middle-class life to fit their new reality — but her resoluteness only exacerbates his despair.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Definition of downsizes
Verb
  • Critical thinking really bums them out.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Then Jason and Thor shower together, each lathering the other’s back and bums up with fewer orgasms than an old Herbal Essences commercial.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2026
Definition of bums
Noun
  • Speaking in the Great Hall at the DOJ headquarters in Washington, Blanche praised career employees and sought to reassure a workforce depleted by firings and resignations and bruised by courtroom setbacks and accusations of political interference.
    — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Blanche will do so with an agency that has been hollowed out by resignations, firings and voluntary departures while also confronting mounting pushback from the courts.
    — Alanna Durkin Richer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of firings
Verb
  • The passed by Republicans last month axes the credits for projects that don’t begin producing electricity by 2028.
    — Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 15 Aug. 2025
Definition of axes
Verb
  • Well … that’s where my skepticism kicks back in.
    — Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • With their mandatory minicamp wrapping up on Thursday, the Chicago Bears get some time to rest before offseason programming kicks back into gear.
    — Jayna Bardahl, New York Times, 11 June 2026
Definition of kicks back
Noun
  • As a result, German autoworker layoffs are now higher than during the global financial crisis of 2008–9 or the COVID pandemic, forcing German and European business associations to call for unprecedentedly stringent local content requirements.
    — Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2026
  • At a time when Maryland’s workforce has been uniquely targeted by federal layoffs, Moore has remained focused on creating jobs, attracting investment and building an economy that can compete for the future.
    — Derrick Whiting, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of layoffs
Verb
  • The first component of the payments, known as the normal cost, is the calculation of how much the public agency and employees must contribute to ensure there are sufficient funds after investment returns to pay pensions when a worker retires.
    — Daniel Borenstein, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The kind that walks out the door when somebody retires or leaves and is extraordinarily slow and expensive to rebuild, if it can be rebuilt at all.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of retires

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