Word.ws English Dictionary

reduction in force

reduction in force noun: a layoff.

Noun

reduction in force (plural reductions in force)

  1. (US, euphemistic) A layoff.
    • The VA is scrapping those plans for now, but it is on pace to reduce the total number of staffers by nearly 30,000, “through the federal hiring freeze, deferred resignations, retirements and normal attrition,” the agency said in a news release, adding that those cuts will eliminate “the need for a...2025 July 7, Brian Todd, “VA walks back plans for mass layoffs but will still lose tens of thousands of jobs”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    RIF

Synonyms of reduction in force

Forms of reduction in force

pluralreductions in force

Questions about reduction in force

What does reduction in force mean?
Reduction in force means a layoff.
What part of speech is reduction in force?
Reduction in force is a noun.
What is the plural of reduction in force?
The plural of reduction in force is reductions in force.

Words near reduction in force in the dictionary

  1. reduction divisions
  2. reduction drive
  3. reduction drives
  4. reduction furnace
  5. reduction furnaces
  6. reduction in force
  7. reduction set
  8. reduction sets
  9. reduction to the absurd
  10. reductional
  11. reductionally

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reduction in force (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “reduction in force.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/reduction_in_force. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.