(1). Laying off employees to balance the budget (see also RIF-ed).
“We had to right-size our company last month by about 20%.”
Props to RC Lations for the submission.
Right-Sizing
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RIF-ed
(1). Reduction In Force – to be laid off, in governnment or teaching parlance.
“The mayor of NYC is calling for thousands of teachers to be RIF-ed but the president of the UFT says it’s all B.S.”
Squishy Number
(1). A dollar amount that just may be subject to considerable interpretation.
“Yeah…I know he said he was worth a billion dollars, but I think that’s a bit of a squishy number. We might want to make that ‘b’ an ‘m’.”