0 present participle of guillotine
1 to cut someone's head off using a guillotine:
During the French Revolution, thousands of people were guillotined.
2 to set a fixed time before a final vote must be taken on a particular law in Parliament:
That suggests that the guillotining is going to be pretty ruthless.
Unfortunately variations in the manufacture of the envelopes and in the guillotining of the payslips do on occasions give rise to the difficulties mentioned.
When we talk about timetabling, we think about guillotining, because that is what we are used to dealing with.
We must also stop drawing a comparison between guillotining and programming.
Those matters clearly will require more mature reflection, and guillotining debate on them will not help.
There is a distinction between timetabling and guillotining.
Guillotining is cutting off debate, whereas programming is getting together to decide where and when we debate.
He is wrong to use the term "guillotining".
