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RIFed

RIFed is the simple past and past participle of RIF.

Meaning of RIF

Verb

RIF (third-person singular simple present RIFs, present participle RIFing, simple past and past participle RIFed)

  1. (transitive) To lay off from work due to a reduction in force.
    • Our own agency let go 300 positions, affected 120 people who got RIFed, but 1,200 people were affected in the process.1994 February 1, Restructuring of the federal government, United States Congress House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, page 58

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Questions about RIFed

What is RIFed the simple past and past participle of?
RIFed is the simple past and past participle of RIF.

Words near RIFed in the dictionary

  1. rifapentene
  2. rifapentine
  3. RIFAs
  4. rifaximin
  5. rife
  6. RIFed
  7. rifely
  8. rifeness
  9. rifer
  10. rifest
  11. riff

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Adapted from Wiktionary: RIFed (page history and authors); RIF (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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