LAYING ON Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

laying on

verb

present participle of lay on

as in applying

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 employing

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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The administration is applying extraordinary pressure on the state less than one week away from Election Day.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2026
The number of Americans applying for unemployment claims dipped last week to 194,000 — the lowest since mid-July — as layoffs remain low and most Americans enjoy job security.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of applying

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These are basically less privileged neighborhoods where the government is meant to show a greater focus on education by employing more teachers and so on.

— Elektra Kotsoni, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
Ukraine has gotten very good at drone warfare, employing these little robots both in offensive and defensive capacities.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2026

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What Florida would be choosing School vaccination requirements help communities establish herd immunity, which is when enough people are vaccinated to prevent a disease from easily spreading.

— Katrine L. Wallace, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026
These methods gained prominence in France during the 2016 labor protests before spreading further during the Yellow Vest movement.

— Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026

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Fielder has made a career out of constructing elaborate social experiments, like building exact replicas of people’s homes and hiring actors to impersonate their loved ones on The Rehearsal.

— Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 27 Oct. 2026
That would begin the process of hiring an executive director, developing operational procedures and recruiting mental health professionals and other responders.

— Chevall Pryce, Baltimore Sun, 27 Oct. 2026

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None of this excuses Chris’ malicious behavior, not just toward Carrie but toward her future stepsister, Brooklyn (Rowan Danielle), and the school as a whole, mostly via a fake Instagram account devoted to smearing students and faculty alike.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026
Disliking someone is an opinion — smearing their reputation is something else.

— Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2026

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This covers workforce analytics, recruiting workflows, employee surveys, learning recommendations, performance management tracking, succession planning and retention analysis.

— Sophia Okeke, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Power of a name As observers in Alaska have noted, recruiting candidates with similar or identical names is not a new move.

— Drew Kurlowski, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026

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The video showed a woman emerging from a Honda Odyssey and laying kibble on the ground near the driver’s side door.

— Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2026
What began with a 5-acre parcel, 11 laying hens and 30 meat birds has since grown into an 18-acre farm that spans their home property and multiple land leases.

— Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of laying

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In the case of Yemen, the ground fighters inside the country who are taking on the Houthis are deeply divided and fought each other as recently as January.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
The sharp selloff in bonds has given investors a rare opportunity to lock in stock-market-like returns without taking on the risk that comes with equities, investment advisors to the ultra-wealthy told CNBC.

— Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026

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