bumping
Definitions
Accounting
- noun a lay-off procedure that allows an employee with greater seniority to displace a more junior employee
Banking
- noun the situation where a senior employee takes the place of a junior (in a restaurant)
Law
- noun a series of movements of staff between jobs which results in the final person in the chain being made redundant
Travel
- noun a situation where someone takes the place of another less important person in a restaurant or on a plane
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