lays on

verb

present tense third-person singular of lay on
1
as in spreads
to put a layer of on a surface she lays the butter on so thickly that you hardly taste the bagel

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2
as in employs
chiefly British to provide with a paying job lay on more staff for the busy tourist season in the Lake District

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lays on
  1. spreads
  2. employs
  3. applies
  4. hires
  5. lays
  6. recruits
  7. smears
  8. takes on
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  • Behind him spreads a green valley uncluttered by cars, roads, or electric wires.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Why bats can pose a rabies risk Rabies spreads through the saliva or nervous tissue of an infected mammal, usually through a bite.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of spreads
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  • The Indus basin supplies about 80% of the country's irrigated agriculture, a sector that employs 65% of the labor force and represents roughly 25% of Pakistan's gross domestic product, according to data compiled by Chatham House.
    — Sam Meredith,Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The sector employs more than 12,000 workers at over 1,800 firms.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of employs
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  • To test whether this applies to quantum objects too, the scientists needed to carry out the same experiment on a quantum object.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The same principle applies to optical fiber sensing, just with much greater sensitivity.
    — Pawel Maniewski, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of applies
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  • Shikiya’s new gig follows other recent Anonymous Content hires like Liza Burnett Fefferman as chief communications and marketing officer and Michael Sinclair as chief legal officer.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2026
  • In the film, cartoon legend Coyote (who can’t speak, of course) hires a reluctant, unambitious lawyer Kevin Avery (East Bay native Will Forte) to be his mouthpiece and legal advocate.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of hires
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  • But Mizzou lays claim to the title because of several factors, including statistical discrepancies and a Border War game that has drawn lines in the sand for Missouri and Kansas fan bases.
    — PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Their life cycle begins after female and male dragonflies mate and the female dragonfly lays tiny eggs in freshwater.
    — Olga R. Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of lays
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  • Most of the industry recruits everyone and trains almost no one — a model critics have compared to multilevel marketing.
    — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026
  • To update standards, the department recruits a committee of educators and experts from around the state who meet over several months and produce a recommendation for course descriptions and grade-level expectations and benchmarks.
    — Jessica Meszaros, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of recruits
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  • Darker smears around the crater’s rim contain surface rocks and lunar dust called regolith previously altered by solar winds, micrometeorites, and cosmic radiation over an extended period of time.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The atmosphere works on them a little bit harder and reduces their strength and smears them a little bit more.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of smears
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  • Newport Harbor is 9-0 and takes on Edison and Marina in league matches this week before beginning play in the Dave Mohs tournament.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Hylton takes on a task that has for many years been anchored by Alex Witt.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of takes on
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“Lays on.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lays%20on. Accessed 3 Sep. 2026.

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