laid-off
Definitions
Dismissed from employment, typically due to a shortage of work or company downsizing rather than personal performance.
Temporarily or permanently removed from a job position.
Examples
Many employees were laid-off after the company decided to downsize its operations.
He felt devastated when he was laid-off from his job of ten years.
The factory workers who were laid-off are now seeking new employment opportunities.
Synonyms
dismissed redundant terminated fired let go discharged sacked