Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
laid off
English answer:
put money aside
Added to glossary by
Yvonne Gallagher
Sep 30, 2012 09:25
11 yrs ago
English term
laid off
English
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Old mars' bein' 'long ago dead, de debt descends to Mars' Pendleton. Three hundred dollars. Uncle Mose is plenty able to pay now. When dat railroad buy my lan' I --------------laid off ---------------to pay fur dem mules. Count de money, Mars' Pendleton. Dat's what I sold dem mules fur. Yassir."
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| 4 +2 | put money aside |
Yvonne Gallagher
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| 4 | laid off => laid out => paid |
airmailrpl
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| 3 | (used part of it) |
David Moore (X)
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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Ireland
Native in English
&
English
Specializes in field
Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
Native in: English (Variants: UK, US, Canadian, Irish) 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
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659
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put money aside
put money aside=save
The speaker (a negro servant who got his freedom and made money/prospered in the meantime) got money from the railroad for his land and put $300 aside at that time to repay old Mars for the mules he'd given him to get started off with. Old Mars is dead so he's giving the money to the Major instead
"Yessir--three hundred dollars." He handed the Major a roll of bills. "When I lef' old mars' says: 'Take dem mule colts, Mose, and, if it be so you gits able, pay fur 'em.' Yessir--dem was his words. De war had done lef' old mars' po' hisself. Old mars' bein' long ago dead, de debt descends to Mars' Pendleton. Three hundred dollars. Uncle Mose is plenty able to pay now. When dat railroad buy my lan' I laid off to pay fur dem mules. Count de money, Mars' Pendleton. Dat's what I sold dem mules fur. Yessir."
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as it turns out, it's not really "uncle Mose" at all but Hargreaves playing the role so he can give the major some money
The speaker (a negro servant who got his freedom and made money/prospered in the meantime) got money from the railroad for his land and put $300 aside at that time to repay old Mars for the mules he'd given him to get started off with. Old Mars is dead so he's giving the money to the Major instead
"Yessir--three hundred dollars." He handed the Major a roll of bills. "When I lef' old mars' says: 'Take dem mule colts, Mose, and, if it be so you gits able, pay fur 'em.' Yessir--dem was his words. De war had done lef' old mars' po' hisself. Old mars' bein' long ago dead, de debt descends to Mars' Pendleton. Three hundred dollars. Uncle Mose is plenty able to pay now. When dat railroad buy my lan' I laid off to pay fur dem mules. Count de money, Mars' Pendleton. Dat's what I sold dem mules fur. Yessir."
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as it turns out, it's not really "uncle Mose" at all but Hargreaves playing the role so he can give the major some money
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
34 mins
(used part of it)
That's what I'd say this means here.
If you "lay off" a bet, you place all (or part) of it with another bookie, so as to avoid having to pay out the whole sum if the bet is won. I think this is probably parallel to this idea, althoug bets are not involved here.
If you "lay off" a bet, you place all (or part) of it with another bookie, so as to avoid having to pay out the whole sum if the bet is won. I think this is probably parallel to this idea, althoug bets are not involved here.
2 hrs
airmailrpl
Brazil
Brazil
Native in English
&
English
Works in field
Brazil
Technical - Fast - good price - accurate
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
, Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, English, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
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88
laid off => laid out => paid
laid off => laid out => paid
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outlay - definition of outlay by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus ...
www.thefreedictionary.com/outlay
out·lay (out l ). n. 1. The spending or disbursement of money: the weekly outlay on groceries. 2. An amount spent; an expenditure: "huge new outlays for the ...
Money laid out on behalf of company | Intuit Community
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7 Sep 2011 – We are a start up. A future employee (not an owner) has purchased something on behalf of our company.
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4
spend
informal to spend money, especially a lot of money [↪ outlay]
lay out something on something
What's the point in laying out money on something you'll only wear once?
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outlay - definition of outlay by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus ...
www.thefreedictionary.com/outlay
out·lay (out l ). n. 1. The spending or disbursement of money: the weekly outlay on groceries. 2. An amount spent; an expenditure: "huge new outlays for the ...
Money laid out on behalf of company | Intuit Community
community.intuit.com/.../money-laid-out-on-behalf-of-compa...
7 Sep 2011 – We are a start up. A future employee (not an owner) has purchased something on behalf of our company.
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Note added at 23 hrs (2012-10-01 09:24:29 GMT)
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4
spend
informal to spend money, especially a lot of money [↪ outlay]
lay out something on something
What's the point in laying out money on something you'll only wear once?
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David Moore (X)
: Oh, come on... "I paid to pay for them..."???
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nobody said the guy speaks good English
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