The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms INTRO ...

suspend; dismiss, discharge, fire, let go, cashier, drum out of
the corps, Colloq (give the) sack, (give the) axe, kick out,
(give the) boot, boot out, give (someone) his or her walking
papers: Fifty workers were laid off because business was slack.
b let up, quit (it), stop (it), cease, desist, leave off, leave
alone, Colloq knock (it) off, cut (it) out, come off (it): I
wish you'd lay off for a while and stop bothering me. You must
lay off phoning your mother twice a day. 17 lay on. a provide,
cater (for), supply: The company laid on quite a Christmas
party. b impose, charge, assess; demand, require: In addition
to enforcing payment of back taxes, they laid on a penalty of 20
per cent. 18 lay out. a design, plan, outline, sketch, arrange,
set up: The art department laid out the advertisements for the
new campaign. b advance, disburse, spend, expend, pay, give,
contribute, Colloq shell out, ante up, kick in with, fork out:
The salesmen often lay out the money for their expenses and are
then reimbursed. c lay low, floor, prostrate, knock down or out,
strike or cut down, flatten, fell, strike down, Colloq knock for
six, kayo or K.O.: He laid out the challenger with a blow to
the solar plexus. 19 lay up. a lay in, amass, accumulate, save
(up), hoard, preserve, store, keep, put away, put by: We laid
up a supply of canned goods for the winter. b hospitalize,
incapacitate, disable, confine to bed, keep indoors: She has
been laid up with a virus all week.
layý adj. 1 secular, non-clerical, laic, non-ecclesiastical: He
served as a lay preacher for many years. 2 amateur,
non-professional, non-specialist: Members of the lay public did
not immediately understand the dangers of the greenhouse effect.
lay° n. ballad, song, air, refrain, strain, melody; poem, ode,
lyric, rhyme, ballade: Macaulay wrote a book entitled Lays of
Ancient Rome .
lazy adj. 1 indolent, slothful, dilatory, idle, shiftless, inactive,
listless, fain‚ant, otiose, slack, lax, lethargic: He's so lazy
and so rich that he pays someone just to walk his dog. 2 slow,
languid, easy, easygoing, sluggish, slow-moving, languorous:
The hot lazy summer days were whiled away fishing.
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