bloodletting Значение & определение

Значение на bloodletting на български

• 0 killing and violence, especially between enemy groups involved in an argument that has existed for a long time:

  • ethnic bloodletting

  • EWS carried out further bloodletting by sacking some senior employees.

• 1 a process in which a company with financial problems gets rid of a lot of employees at the same time:

  • Twenty-five senior employees were fired in the latest round of bloodletting.

• 2 a period of time during which shares lose a lot of their value:

  • Wall Street prepared itself for a week of bloodletting as stock market conditions continued to worsen.