lay-off
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Definitions from Case Law
United States Supreme Court
A period during which a workman is temporarily dismissed or allowed to leave his work; that part or season of the year during which activity in a particular business or game is partly or completely suspended; an off-season.
Defined by the Supreme Court in Fishgold v. Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corporation, 328 U.S. 275 (1946).