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lay down on the job

lay down on the job is the simple past of lie down on the job.

Meaning of lie down on the job

Verb

lie down on the job (third-person singular simple present lies down on the job, present participle lying down on the job, simple past lay down on the job, past participle lain down on the job)

  1. To be idle when one should be working.

Questions about lay down on the job

What is lay down on the job the simple past of?
Lay down on the job is the simple past of lie down on the job.

Words near lay down on the job in the dictionary

  1. lay days
  2. lay doggo
  3. lay down
  4. lay down arms
  5. lay down on
  6. lay down on the job
  7. lay down one's arms
  8. lay down one's flag
  9. lay down one's life
  10. lay down one's weapons
  11. lay down the law

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lay down on the job (page history and authors); lie down on the job (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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