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1. lay off : to make workers, especially workers in a large factory or organization, leave their jobs, because there is not enough work for them to do, or not enough money to pay their wages （尤其指工廠的）裁員

例：

3000 car workers have been laid off at the factory in Cleveland. （克利夫蘭的汽車廠裁了 3000 名員工。）

The company has had to lay off most of the staff. （公司只好大量裁員。）

Costs have increased and many workers have been laid off. （成本增加，大量裁員。）

補(bǔ)充： ''lay off'' 的名詞形式是 ''layoff'' 。

例：

The company announced the layoff of several hundred employees. （公司宣布將裁減幾百名員工。）

More layoffs are expected at the factory later this year. （今年工廠還會有更多裁員。）

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2. make somebody redundant : to make someone leave their job, and usually pay them some money to do so, because they are no longer needed （給予補(bǔ)償?shù)模┎脝T

備注： ''make somebody redundant'' 是英式英語的用法。

例：

At least 2,000 computer programmers have been made redundant in the past year. （去年至少裁減了 2000 名程序員。）

We lost our home when my husband was made redundant five years ago. （五年前，我丈夫被公司裁員，我們只得把房子賣了。）

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3. redundancy : a situation in which someone has to leave their job, and is usually paid some money to do so, because they are no longer needed by their company （ 2 的名詞形式）

備注： ''redundancy'' 是英式英語的用法。

例：

Two thousand workers now face redundancy. （ 2000 名工人面臨裁員。）

These redundancies are necessary for the company to be able to survive. （公司為了生存，必須裁員。）

The board are planning a restructuring which could mean hundreds of redundancies. （董事會計劃進(jìn)行結(jié)構(gòu)調(diào)整，這意味著將大量裁員數(shù)百人。）

The closure of the export department resulted in over 100 redundancies. （出口部被撤銷，導(dǎo)致 100 多名員工被裁員。）

The restructuring is expected to result in the redundancy of several hundred workers. （結(jié)構(gòu)調(diào)整將導(dǎo)致幾百名員工被裁員。）

An employee is not eligible for a redundancy payment unless he has been with the company for two years. （員工只有在公司呆滿兩年，被解雇的時候才會有裁員補(bǔ)償金。）

voluntary redundancy (=when a company asks workers if they want to leave their jobs, and offers to pay them money to do so) （有補(bǔ)償?shù)模┳栽鸽x職

We hope to achieve staffing cuts through voluntary redundancy and a freeze on recruitment. （我們希望通過員工自動離職及暫停招聘新人，來減少員工數(shù)量。）

We were offered a ￡3,000 cash bonus to take voluntary redundancy. （自動離職可以得到 3000 英鎊的補(bǔ)償金。）

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4. suspend : to make someone leave a job or organization temporarily, either as a punishment for doing something wrong, or while the organization tries to find out whether they have done something wrong or not 暫時停職

例：

He was suspended from the team for missing too many practices. （他太多練習(xí)沒參加，暫時被隊(duì)伍雪藏。）

Dave was suspended from school for a week. （戴夫被勒令停學(xué)一周。）

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5. relieve somebody of their duties/post : if someone with an important official job is relieved of their duties or post, their job is taken away from them, especially for a short time because people think they have done something very bad and this is being checked 停職察看

例：

The Chief Inspector has been relieved of his duties pending another investigation by fellow officers. （檢察長被停職察看，有待進(jìn)一步調(diào)查。）

The authorities have decided to relieve the professor of his post at the university until further notice, after complaints were made by one of his female students. （這位教授被女學(xué)生投訴，校方?jīng)Q定即刻將他停職察看。）