0 a tool that has a heavy iron or steel blade at the end of a long wooden handle, used for cutting wood:
1 to reduce services, jobs, payments, etc. a lot or completely without warning or in a single action:
2 to get rid of large numbers of employees, especially in order to reduce costs:
3 to stop providing a particular service because it is no longer profitable:
4 if employees, services, etc. get the axe or are given the axe, a decision is made to get rid of them:
5 if employees face the axe, they may lose their jobs, especially because their employer needs to reduce costs:
6 to decide to get rid of a large number of employees or to no longer provide particular services:
Legislators are considering taking an ax to the latest spending plans.
Companies have to know how to wield the axe when market conditions demand it.
7 if the axe falls, a company needs to get rid of a large number of employees or can no longer afford to provide particular services:
The axe fell after the successful conclusion of merger talks between two of Germany's biggest banks.
8 to have a strong opinion about something that you want other people to accept:
Most shareholders have no ax to grind other than keeping company management honest.
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