break
knock off
die
hang up one's spurs
recess
give up
take time off
pack a sad
take off
smoko
cut out
get off
spell
shut off
down tools
discontinuation
leaveism
discontinuance
spell off
stop over
strike
swear
pierce
lie on the oars
shut down
flameout
piss in the wind
have done with
call it quits
let down
RIF
suspend
lie down on the job
shit-can
rise
close up
shelve
out of office
put a pin in
leave-taking
walk out
added time
turn out
job and knock
breaktime
idle
fart
take time out
additional time
stop-work
scrap
spend
retrench
sit on one's ass
boondoggle
draw stumps
pull up stumps
kick off
kick out
sunlighting
idleness
slack
faineance
foreclose
holiday
job and finish
core hours
squelch
call it a day
cease and desist
burn out
dodge the column
cess
go down
knock it off
scab
throw in one's hand
hand someone their cards
pause
give someone their cards
dump job
blackleg
belay
bludge
rat
get busy
quiesce
fink
quiet quit
cut short
can
pit out
jack in
let up
out of office
smoko
discontinuation
leaveism
discontinuance
strike
flameout
break
recess
leave-taking
added time
job and knock
breaktime
additional time
stop-work
sunlighting
idleness
faineance
holiday
job and finish
core hours
dump job
break
knock off
die
hang up one's spurs
recess
give up
take time off
pack a sad
take off
cut out
get off
spell
shut off
down tools
spell off
stop over
swear
pierce
lie on the oars
shut down
piss in the wind
have done with
call it quits
let down
RIF
suspend
lie down on the job
shit-can
rise
strike
close up
shelve
put a pin in
walk out
turn out
idle
fart
take time out
scrap
spend
retrench
sit on one's ass
boondoggle
draw stumps
pull up stumps
kick off
kick out
slack
foreclose
squelch
call it a day
cease and desist
burn out
dodge the column
cess
go down
scab
throw in one's hand
hand someone their cards
pause
give someone their cards
blackleg
belay
bludge
rat
get busy
quiesce
fink
quiet quit
cut short
can
pit out
jack in
let up
verb
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
verb
- To halt one's work or other activity.
- To rob.
- To defeat.
- To have sex with.
- To remove, as a discount or estimate.
- To make a copy of, as of a design.
- To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter.
- To remove by hitting (something, someone)
- To kill.
- To accomplish hastily.
verb
- To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- followed by of; general use
- To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from)
- To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- To yearn intensely.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes
- To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- To lose a game.
- To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- followed by with as an indication of manner
noun
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- Any small cubical or square body.
- An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
- An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
verb
- To take or declare a break.
- To appoint, with a recess appointment.
- To make a recess in.
- To inset into something, or to recede.
- To suspend (formal proceedings) temporarily.
- To place in a recess.
- To suspend its proceedings for a period of time.
noun
- A break, pause or vacation.
- A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest.
- A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
- A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground.
- An inset, hole, hollow space or opening.
- A remote, secret or abstruse place.
- A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
- A period of time when the proceedings of a parliament, committee, court of law, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
verb
- To stop or quit (an activity, etc.)
- To admit defeat, capitulate
- Become fully taken over by a certain quality, activity, trait, &c.
- To abandon (someone or something)
- To relinquish (something)
- To execute a trade on behalf of another broker.
- To surrender (someone or something)
- To lose hope concerning (someone or something)
verb
- To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
- To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
- To intercept.
- To arrange or prepare.
- To remove, omit.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.
- To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop/cease (doing something).
- To oust, to replace.
- To separate from a herd.
- To leave suddenly.
adj
verb
- be relieved of one's duties temporarily
- leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.
- transfer
- cause to be acquitted; get off the hook; in a legal case
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- enjoy in a sexual way
- alight from (a horse)
- get out of quickly
- send via the postal service
- get high, stoned, or drugged
- deliver verbally
verb
noun
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
verb
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To impinge upon.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
verb
- To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.
- To promise intensely that something is true; to strongly assert.
- To take an oath that an assertion is true.
- To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
- To administer an oath to (a person).
- To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect.
noun
adj
verb
- To halt something temporarily.
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
verb
- To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
- To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
- To leave one's bed; to get up.
- To attain a higher status.
- To have its source (in a particular place).
- Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
- To develop.
- To become erect; to assume an upright position.
- To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
- To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
- To be resurrected.
- To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
- To slope upward.
- To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
- To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To move upwards.
- To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
- To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- To cause to go up or ascend.
noun
- An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- The height of an arch or a step.
verb
noun
verb
- To leave one's work to take part in a strike.
- To attend; show up.
- To succeed; work out; turn out well.
- To end up; to result.
- To empty for inspection.
- To remove from a mould, bowl etc.
- To put (cattle) out to pasture.
- To get out of bed; get up.
- To convince to vote
- To extinguish a light or other device
- To produce; make.
- To rape; to coerce an otherwise heterosexual individual into performing a homosexual role.
- To convince a person (usually a woman) to become a prostitute.
- To leave a road.
- To refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict.
- To become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out
verb
- To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
- Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
adj
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
noun
noun
verb
- To stop working on indefinitely.
- To discard.
- To make into scrap.
- to fight
- To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- To dispose of at a scrapyard.
noun
- Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
- A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
- The smallest amount.
- Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- Leftover food.
verb
- To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
- To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
- To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
- To abridge; to curtail.
- To cut down or reduce.
- To live less expensively; to economize.
- To confine; to limit; to restrict.
- To take up a new defensive position.
verb
- To shut down or turn off suddenly.
- To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.
- To suddenly become more active.
- To start; to launch.
- To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders. Used figuratively or literally.
- To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight.
- To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.
- To have a fight or argument start.
- To die or quit permanently.
verb
- avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
- be inattentive to, or neglect
- release tension on
- make less active or fast
- become slow or slower
- make less active or intense
- become less in amount or intensity
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
noun
- dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a stretch of water without current or movement
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- the quality of being loose (not taut)
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
adj
verb
- To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
- To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength.
- To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
- To walk or step through a substance such as mud.
noun
verb
- To end one's shift at a job.
- To have one's tires skid against the ground; to peel off, peel out.
- To destroy by fire.
- To cause (someone) to tire due to overwork; to cause (someone) to overwork to one's limit.
- To make (someone) unavailable for work involving exposure to ionizing radiation by employing (the person) in such work until the person's accumulated exposure reaches the maximum permitted for an administrative period, typically a year.
- To tire due to overwork; to overwork to their limit.
- To become extinguished due to lack of fuel.
- To become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices).
noun
verb
verb
- To stop functioning, to go offline.
- To crash.
- To be soundly defeated.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, down.
- To be received or accepted.
- To be pleasant, etc., when eaten or drunk.
- To perform oral sex.
- To decrease; to change from a greater value to a lesser one.
- To fall (down); to fall to the floor.
- To take place, happen.
- To sink.
- To be blamed for something; to be the scapegoat; to go to prison.
- To be recorded or remembered (as).
- Synonym of set, to disappear below the horizon.
verb
- To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
- To interrupt an activity and wait.
- To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
- To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
noun
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate
- A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
noun
- The abandonment of an unfinished task for which the abandoner might be expected to take responsibility, especially in a fashion that makes it likely that one or more colleagues will take on its completion.
- A dump truck.
- The act of moving a corpse from the place of death and abandoning it in a deserted area, typically to conceal a murder.
verb
- To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.
- To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform.
- To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.
- To take some benefit and give nothing in return.
noun
verb
- take the place of work of someone on strike
- desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage
- employ scabs or strike breakers in
- give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat
- catch rats, especially with dogs
- give away information about somebody
noun
- any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
- someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
- one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority
- a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure
verb
- To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- To have the potential to; be possible.
- To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
- Used with verbs of perception.
- May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- To fire or dismiss an employee.
- To shut up.
- To know how to; to be able to.
- To seal in a can.
- To hole the ball.
- To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- The boss canned him for speaking out.
noun
- An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
- A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- Jail or prison.
- A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- Buttocks.
- Headphones.
- A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- A chimney pot.
- A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
- An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
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