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Meaning of RIF | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
ɹɪf

Definitions

  1. A mountainous region in northern Morocco.
  2. Initialism of reduction in force.
  3. A former country in North Africa, a republic which existed briefly during the 1920s in what is now northern Morocco.
  4. Initialism of risk influencing factor.

Equivalents

Español RIF
Français rif
Português rife

Examples

“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.”
“A lot of the RIFs were done because budgets were cut by the Congress.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Any measure can be related to the improvement of a RIF, thus the resulting risk reduction can be assessed.”
“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.”
“Risk Influencing Factor (RIF): A factor or condition that influences the risk.”

CEFR level

C2
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