rif

present singular third person rifs · participle present riffing · participle past riffed · past riffed

1. Alternative letter-case form of RIF.

   People are being riffed at her company, too.

   2014, Murray Farish, Inappropriate Behavior: Stories, →ISBN, page 151

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   This sense was expressed in a story about a friend who had been laid off (riffed) in a particularly uncaring manner.

   1991, Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges, Peter J. Frost, Reframing Organizational Culture, →ISBN, page 152

   If an employee is not given concrete and objective reasons for being riffed, it may be assumed the decision, "must have been discrimination" due to race, sex, age, ethnic background, or other wrongful basis.

   2003, Byron K. Simerson, Michael D. McCormick, Fired, Laid Off, Out of a Job, →ISBN

plural RIFs · alternative rif

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of reduction in force.

   A lot of the RIFs were done because budgets were cut by the Congress.

   1983, Management, United States. Office of Personnel Management, page 110

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   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 between about $20,000 and $37,000 a year.

   1981 December 28, Black Enterprise, page 29

   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 administration, since there had been no time to oppose them.

   2002, Irene S. Rubin, Balancing the Federal Budget: Trimming the Herds or Eating the Seed Corn?

   A RIF notice received by one FDA employee on Tuesday included performance ratings that were incorrectly low, meaning the severance pay offered was lower than it would be for the ratings they previously received, the employee told CNN.

   2025 April 1, Nick Valencia, Brenda Goodman, Meg Tirrell, Tami Luhby and Sean Lyngaas, “‘It’s a bloodbath’: Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agencies”, in CNN

   The Office of Personnel Management regulations for RIFs include details about so-called bumping and retreating rights, which should apply to any agency conducting a reduction in force, said Jenny Mattingley, vice president for government affairs at the Partnership.

   2025 May 2, Eric Bradner, Tami Luhby, Sarah Owermohle, Sunlen Serfaty, Brian Todd and Marshall Cohen, “Left in limbo: How federal workers still on the job are coping with chaos”, in CNN

2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of risk influencing factor.

   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

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   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 Applications, page 4

3. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of rock-inhabiting fungi.

   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 microcells as control agent of indoor microorganisms”, in Scientific Reports, volume 6, →DOI, →ISSN, page 1

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   Although very common, RIF have often been overlooked due to their small size, their slow growth and the lack of diagnostic features.

   2009 June 28, C. Ruibal., C. Gueidan, L. Selbmann, A.A. Gorbushina, P.W. Crous, J.Z. Groenewald, L. Muggia, M. Grube, D. Isola, C.L. Schoch, J.T. Staley, F. Lutzoni, G.S. de Hoog, “Phylogeny of rock-inhabiting fungi related to Dothideomycetes”, in Studies in Mycology, volume 64, number 1, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, →DOI, →ISSN, page 123

   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 microcolonial structures on bare rock surfaces without algae or lichen by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) as well as high rates of physiological activity by respiration detection.

   2022 [2021 December 27], Bingjie Liu, Rong Fu, Bing Wu, Xingzhong Liu, Meichun Xiang, “Rock-inhabiting fungi: terminology, diversity, evolution and adaptation mechanisms”, in Mycology, volume 13, number 1, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, page 1

present singular third person RIFs · participle present RIFing · participle past RIFed · past RIFed · alternative rif

1. transitiveTo lay off from work due to a reduction in force.

   Federal employees got 'RIFed.' That lasted about six months.

   2015, William F. Buckley, Tucker's Last Stand

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   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 on Post Office and Civil Service, page 58

   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 Valentine

   “If somebody’s been RIF’ed, they may have the opportunity of moving into another position where they have seniority that is specifically similar to the job that they had before,” Stier said.

   2025 May 2, Eric Bradner, Tami Luhby, Sarah Owermohle, Sunlen Serfaty, Brian Todd and Marshall Cohen, “Left in limbo: How federal workers still on the job are coping with chaos”, in CNN

alternative Er Rif · alternative Riff

1. A mountainous region in northern Morocco.
2. A former country in North Africa, a republic which existed briefly during the 1920s in what is now northern Morocco.