cái​yuán

lay off

裁员 (裁員) cái​yuán
lay off verb
to cut staff or lay off employees, typically for economic or structural reasons

Due to the economic downturn, this company had to conduct large-scale layoffs.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
2.35 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
4.60 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 6

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT