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  • verb Present participle of delayer.

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Examples

  • In 2005, we announced a delayering of our organization, and a third of our managers left.

    Avon's Andrea Jung: CEOs need to reinvent themselves 2009

  • In 2005, we announced a delayering of our organization, and a third of our managers left.

    Avon CEO likes to see with fresh eyes 2009

  • He could have demonstrated that a bloated top management group was delayering and sharing the pain.

    Globe Writers Guild Punch Pinch - Charlie Warner - MediaBizBlogger 2009

  • Down-sizing, delayering, outsourcing and reengineering haunt the suburbs as well as the inner cities, mocking the commitments and hollowing out the institutions which were once the lodestars of the salariat.

    Archive 2009-08-01 John M 2009

  • He could have demonstrated that a bloated top management group was delayering and sharing the pain.

    Charles Warner: Globe Writers Guild Punch Pinch 2009

  • JEFFREY KRAMES, AUTHOR, "THE RUMSFELD WAY": This guy was ahead of his time because here, in 1977, you Don't have companies out there doing things like down sizing and delayering and selling off noncore businesses.

    CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2006 2006

  • JEFFREY KRAMES, AUTHOR, "THE RUMSFELD WAY": This guy was ahead of his time because here, in 1977, you Don't have companies out there doing things like down sizing and delayering and selling off noncore businesses.

    CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2006 2006

  • JEFFREY KRAMES, AUTHOR, "THE RUMSFELD WAY": This guy was ahead of his time because here, in 1977, you Don't have companies out there doing things like down sizing and delayering and selling off noncore businesses.

    CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2006 2006

  • JEFFREY KRAMES, AUTHOR, "THE RUMSFELD WAY": This guy was ahead of his time because here, in 1977, you Don't have companies out there doing things like down sizing and delayering and selling off noncore businesses.

    CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2006 2006

  • JEFFREY KRAMES, AUTHOR, "THE RUMSFELD WAY": This guy was ahead of his time because here, in 1977, you Don't have companies out there doing things like down sizing and delayering and selling off noncore businesses.

    CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2006 2006

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