Genres: Coming-of-Age, Ensemble Film, Reunion Films, Comedy Drama; Director: Barry Levinson; Cast: Tim Daly, Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon.
call off. vb (tr, adverb). 1. to cancel or abandon: the game was called off because of rain. 2. to order (an animal or person) to desist or summon away: the man called off his dog.
Originally, layoff referred exclusively to a temporary interruption in work, but nowadays it can also mean and more commonly means the permanent elimination of a position in both British and US English, requiring the addition of temporary to specify the original meaning.