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third-person singular simple present rifs, present participle riffing, simple past and past participle riffed
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This sense was expressed in a story about a friend who had been laid off (riffed) in a particularly uncaring manner.
1991, Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges, Peter J. Frost, Reframing Organizational Culture, page 152
If an employee is not given concrete and objective reasons for being riffed, it may be assumed the decision, "must have been discrimination" due to race, sex, age, ethnic background, or other wrongful basis.
2003, Byron K. Simerson, Michael D. McCormick, Fired, Laid Off, Out of a Job
People are being riffed at her company, too.
2014, Murray Farish, Inappropriate Behavior: Stories, page 151