re-lay
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of re-lay
Example Sentences
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“Our sellable product for the next selling season which starts in October is the one that’s been decimated. It was in the main river and we re-lay it there for early fattening. Obviously with the flow of water and the force, most of that was either washed out or lost,” Harper said.
From Reuters
“Unfortunately for our team members, we had to re-lay off a fair amount of people,” said Baumann, the executive whose company owns Caesars, Bally’s and Harrah’s.
From Washington Times
If it’s fixing the surface we’ll re-lay it, if it’s new we build from the foundations up.
From The Guardian
To re-create the feeling of the landscape, Woods must re-lay the bricks of every street—hence his indignation, when reviews of his translations praise the author’s prose as if it were not his as well.
From The New Yorker
You learned to clean and re-lay the dirty, coal-heated, gas-fired boiler.
From The Guardian
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