lay on

verb

Definition of lay onnext
1
as in to spread
to put a layer of on a surface she lays the butter on so thickly that you hardly taste the bagel

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2
as in to employ
chiefly British to provide with a paying job lay on more staff for the busy tourist season in the Lake District

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  1. spread
  2. employ
  3. apply
  4. hire
  5. recruit
  6. smear
Verb
  • Many celebrities, including Spencer Pratt, Anna Faris, and Adrien Brody, have unfortunately lost their homes due to the rapidly spreading wildfires, with many other Angelenos under evacuation orders.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Rapidly spreading wildfires tearing through Los Angeles County Wednesday have destroyed roughly 1,000 structures and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes.
    Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of spread
Verb
  • The park employs an average of 1,400 workers, Turner said.
    Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2025
  • All general managers employed by Edmonton in these years sent away picks and prospects in an effort to win the Stanley Cup.
    Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of employ
Verb
  • Firefly Bulk Create is powered by Adobe Firefly Services, a set of APIs for generative AI tasks such as resizing assets, or swapping backgrounds, and applying the changes to thousands of pieces of content with one action.
    Joan Verdon, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Previously, the perk only applied to members of Starbucks’ loyalty program.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of apply
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  • Key to this initial foothold in the industry was grabbing the attention of Uptown CEO Andre Harrell, who hired him as an intern and ushered him into the label’s A&R department.
    Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Being the sole benefactor of her late parents’ assets meant having some financial resources to begin this work, which involved hiring archivists and working 40 hours a week over 3 years to document inventory and create a digital archive.
    Maddie Klett, ARTnews.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of hire
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  • Burnett recruited leading Americana, folk and bluegrass music virtuosos including Alison Krauss, Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, Larkin Poe and Lucius to appear on Look Up, many on multiple tracks.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, another research group in Singapore is currently recruiting for a study on the Delta variant.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of recruit
Verb
  • Yet before those convoys even made their way to the capital, Trudeau, his ministers, and their contacts in the media, were conspiring to smear the protesters as violent extremists bent on bringing a January 6 north to Canada.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Now this journalist is accused of helping smear the star.
    Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of smear
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