RIF
To lay off from work due to a reduction in force.
Noun
- Initialism of reduction in force.
- According to Norman Seay, executive director of Blacks in Government, an organization of federal employees, the RIFs will have the heaviest impact on the professional, managerial, and technical workers — those making...
- A lot of the RIFs were done because budgets were cut by the Congress. - 1983, Management, United States. Office of Personnel Management, page 110:
- The legislators who represented many federal employees, and those on authorizing committees who were sympathetic with the goals of programs they supervised, had reacted with frustration to the RIFs of the early Reagan...
- Initialism of risk influencing factor.
- Any measure can be related to the improvement of a RIF, thus the resulting risk reduction can be assessed. - 2003, Tim Bedford, Safety and Reliability: Proceedings of the ESREL 2003 Conference:
- We study helicopter risk by means of the risk influencing model, so the effect of changes is related directly to the RIFs in the model. - 2009, Radim Bris, Reliability, Risk, and Safety, Three Volume Set: Theory and...
- Risk Influencing Factor (RIF): A factor or condition that influences the risk. - 2013, R.D.J.M. Steenbergen, Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis: Beyond the Horizon, page 2215:
- Initialism of rock-inhabiting fungi.
- Although very common, RIF have often been overlooked due to their small size, their slow growth and the lack of diagnostic features. - 2009 June 5, C. Ruibal., C. Gueidan, L. Selbmann, A.A. Gorbushina, P.W. Crous, J.Z....
- Among RIF, we chose Penicillium spinulosum and black yeast (BY) that resist chemical attack and anti-microbial treatments[.] - 2016 October 28, Wojciech Spisak, Andrzej Chlebicki, Mariusz Kaszczyszyn, “Galvanic...
- Although the existence of heterotrophic microorganisms on rocks was previously reported (Gromov 1957), it is generally believed that meticulous academic studies of RIF began with Staley et al. (1982), who observed dark...
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Verb
- 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...
- Federal employees got 'RIFed.' That lasted about six months. - 2015, William F. Buckley, Tucker's Last Stand:
- Despite my exemplary service, I got RIFed.” Ginger cringed at the raw sarcasm in his voice, but wanted clarification. “Riffed?” “Reduction in force. Let go, laid off, whatever fits.” - 2016, Jenna Mindel, A Soldier's...