All laid-off synonyms

adj laid-off

• released — to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go: to release a prisoner; to release someone from a debt.
• fired — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
• freed — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
• sacked — the plundering of a captured place; pillage: the sack of Troy.
• canned — Canned music, laughter, or applause on a television or radio programme has been recorded beforehand and is added to the programme to make it sound as if there is a live audience.
• replaced — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
• ousted — to expel or remove from a place or position occupied: The bouncer ousted the drunk; to oust the prime minister in the next election.
• axed — an instrument with a bladed head on a handle or helve, used for hewing, cleaving, chopping, etc.
• let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.