LAID ON Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

laid on

verb

past tense of lay on

as in applied

to put a layer of on a surface she lays the butter on so thickly that you hardly taste the bagel

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as in employed

chiefly British to provide with a paying job lay on more staff for the busy tourist season in the Lake District

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Jones applied through the nonprofit New York Foundation for Senior Citizens (NYFSC) and was matched with an elderly woman who owns a home in Jamaica, Queens.

— Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
If their income is between one and two times the federal poverty level, Central Health pays the balance of their monthly premium after federal tax credits have been applied.

— Olivia Aldridge, NPR, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of applied

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These theories spreading online, one expert says, stem from people’s struggles to find a fulfilling explanation for what has happened.

— Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Cedars-Sinai apologized for any inconvenience Marina del Rey residents endured after the hospital's construction project caused a putrid odor to spread through the coastal neighborhood.

— Nicole Comstock, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of spread

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Each of these decisions laid the groundwork for the war on Iran today, one that started without a clear strategy on the arrogant expectation of a quick victory.

— Alexander Langlois, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026
The Lindsay Clancy case has laid bare a double standard in how mothers who kill their children are treated compared to fathers.

— Dr. Susan Hatters Friedman, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of laid

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At a science standards adoption in Texas in 2021, an oil and gas industry group recruited volunteers to participate in the process.

— Jessica Meszaros, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Tottenham have recruited six players, all of whom played in the Premier League last season.

— Adam Crafton, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of recruited

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Camille can still picture Burke standing over her, fake blood smeared across her dress.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026
There’s rarely anything as straightforward as a kick drum, a hi-hat, or even a bassline here; instead, everything is smeared, all origins occulted in a thicket of echoes and reflections.

— Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 4 Aug. 2026

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