lays on

verb

present tense third-person singular of lay on
1
as in spreads
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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2
as in employs
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lays on
  1. spreads
  2. employs
  3. applies
  4. hires
  5. lays
  6. recruits
  7. smears
  8. takes on
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  • Sharma recently created a new arm within Xbox meant to centralize and double down on commercial opportunities for top franchises such as Minecraft, similar to how Disney spreads its Marvel brand into movies, shows, theme park attractions, and more.
    — Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The 24-piece box comes with miniature jars of jams and spreads like fig and cardamom, caramel and dark chocolate, rhubarb and strawberry, apricot and honey, and more.
    — Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of spreads
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  • Our parent company, CRH, employs 1,278 people across 59 locations in 48 North Carolina communities to produce the aggregates, asphalt, masonry products, pipe, and precast solutions that make construction possible.
    — Kevin Blackwell, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026
  • And when a trillion-dollar company receives generous tax incentives for a building that employs relatively few permanent workers, local officials are entitled to ask what their constituents are getting.
    — Zev Laine, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of employs
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  • For the collection, the mill applies a special cleaning process to cotton that removes 80 percent of impurities.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The California Department of Education clarified that a waiver the district received only applies to the 80% staffing rule and does not extend the three-year spending deadline, meaning unexpended funds revert to the state.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of applies
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  • This becomes especially important when a business enters another state, hires employees in a new jurisdiction, changes its legal structure or begins working with international customers and suppliers.
    — Prasanna Kumar, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • GoCardless hires graduates from any discipline but still encourages them to qualify as accountants and pays for the exams.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of hires
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  • That said, the research lays a promising foundation for integrating electronics with biological tissue.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Unsurprisingly, the report lays a lot of blame on the US, which saw its emissions rise more than any other country in the past year.
    — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of lays
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  • Alvin Cheung, the university’s president and CEO, said the school recruits people who are comfortable participating in medical education and helping students develop clinical skills.
    — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The Republican National Committee, for one, recruits observers to keep elections secure and transparent.
    — Ashley Lopez, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of recruits
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  • Darker smears around the crater’s rim contain surface rocks and lunar dust called regolith previously altered by solar winds, micrometeorites, and cosmic radiation over an extended period of time.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The atmosphere works on them a little bit harder and reduces their strength and smears them a little bit more.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of smears
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  • The mental load of harder cases As AI takes on routine tasks, human agents may be left dealing with a greater share of complicated cases — and be required to pick up the slack when the technology fails.
    — Lindsay Dodgson, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The other game is another SEC matchup as Missouri takes on Ole Miss.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
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