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let someone go

let someone go verb: to dismiss someone from an employment position or a relationship.

Verb

let someone go (third-person singular simple present lets someone go, present participle letting someone go, simple past and past participle let someone go)

  1. (euphemistic, idiomatic) To dismiss someone from an employment position or a relationship.
    Synonyms:
    lay off

let someone go meaning in Malayalam

let someone go in Malayalam

lay off, make redundant, dismiss
പിരിച്ചുവിടുക, പറഞ്ഞുവിടുക, നീക്കംചെയ്യുക, പിരിച്ചയയ്ക്കുക, മോചിക്കുക, തൊഴിലവസരമില്ലാത്തതിനാൽ പിരിച്ചുവിടുക

Synonyms of let someone go

Forms of let someone go

third-person singular presentlets someone go
present participleletting someone go
past participlelet someone go
pastlet someone go

Questions about let someone go

What does let someone go mean?
Let someone go means to dismiss someone from an employment position or a relationship.
What is let someone go in Malayalam?
Let someone go in Malayalam is പിരിച്ചുവിടുക, പറഞ്ഞുവിടുക, നീക്കംചെയ്യുക. See Let someone go meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is let someone go?
Let someone go is a verb.
What is the past tense of let someone go?
The past tense of let someone go is let someone go.

Words near let someone go in the dictionary

  1. let rip
  2. let sleeping dogs lie
  3. let slide
  4. let slip
  5. let someone down gently
  6. let someone go
  7. let someone have it
  8. let someone hold
  9. let someone loose
  10. let something ride
  11. let something slip

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Adapted from Wiktionary: let someone go (page history and authors); let someone go (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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