furloughed

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Editorial note

There are around 4 million federal personnel, of which 800k are furloughed, which means the government is running at 80%.

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Quick take

(transitive) To grant a furlough to (someone).

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of furloughed gathered in one view.

verb

(transitive) To grant a furlough to (someone).

verb

(transitive) To have (an employee) not work in order to reduce costs; to send (someone) on furlough.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for furloughed.

verb

(transitive) To grant a furlough to (someone).

verb

(transitive) To have (an employee) not work in order to reduce costs; to send (someone) on furlough.

Example sentences

There are around 4 million federal personnel, of which 800k are furloughed, which means the government is running at 80%.

Your reference to making lemonade from lemons seems to imply that the people who made it were furloughed.

Feature request: It would be nice if this page had the total # of employees / furloughed employees.

Nice dashboard:) Out of curiosity, where did you get the data re: who is furloughed from which departments?

Workers who have been furloughed will only be paid back if Congress explicitly passes a bill to pay them.

For example, there's no money for Federal Highway Grants, so the people who manage Federal Highway Grants are furloughed.

I can't quickly tell if the furloughed for an agency is linear based on the percentage of the total employees for that agency, or is also logarithmic.

I survived a layoff round only to be furloughed for the week after Christmas a few months later.

Heck, they even made the furloughed employees whole, as they have in times past.

I know many people who were furloughed this week and not a single one of them is happy.

Don't people only risk getting furloughed in the event of a government shutdown?

How about you were only temporarily furloughed, not fired, for two weeks, and this was the first time it has happened in 17 years.

Quote examples

This isn't an investment, this is "in case I lose my job or get furloughed or...".

"are furloughed federal employees eligible for unemployment compensation?" Yes.

The hard part is he's had to go through indentured servitude (ahem "an apprenticeship") of several years, the risks of getting injured, and the risks of being furloughed / laid off the moment there is a downturn in work.

This (annoyingly "furloughed") page on nasa.gov has an article written by Wernher von Braun that says: > "A large stand was built to static-test the huge stage under the full 7,500,000-pound-thrust of its five F-1 engines.