Term: layoff: the act of laying off an employee or a work force
Candidate hypernym: psychological feature: a feature of the mental life of a living organism → 1
Candidate hypernym: palestra: a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes → 0
Candidate hypernym: regeneration: (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs → 0
Candidate hypernym: mackinaw: a short plaid coat made of made of thick woolen material → 0
Candidate hypernym: quahog: an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians → 0
Candidate hypernym: truncation: the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces) → 0
Candidate hypernym: worth: the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful → 0
Candidate hypernym: countermarch: (military) a march in the reverse direction or back along the same route → 0
Candidate hypernym: skin cell: any of the cells making up the skin → 0
Candidate hypernym: smyrnium: Alexanders → 0
Candidate hypernym: paper tiger: the nature of a person or organization that appears powerful but is actually powerless and ineffectual → 0