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axesnoun1pl. of ax the termination of the employment of an employee or a work force often temporarilythe company was hemorrhaging money, so 700 employees would soon be given the ax discharges, dismissals, furloughs, layoffs, redundancies(chiefly British) pink slipsbirds(chiefly British), boots, bum's rushes, firings, heave-hos, sacksclosings, shutdownsshakeouts, shake-ups callbacks, recalls, reemployments(or re-employments), rehires a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interestin addition to being the suburb's social axis, the country club is the place where deals are made and partnerships are forged bases, capitals, centers, centrals, cores, cynosures, epicenters, eyes, foci(also focuses), ground zeros, hearts, hubs, loci, meccas, navels, nerve centers, nexuses(or nexus), nuclei(also nucleuses), omphali, seats headquartershappy hunting grounds, hives, hotbeds, hot spots, playgrounds, playlandskernels, nubs, pithsdeeps, thicksessences, quintessences, soulsattractions, lodestones(also loadstones), magnets, polestars an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protectionan axis of previously nonaligned nations alliances, blocks, blocs, coalitions, combinations, combines, confederacies, confederations, federations, leagues, unions cabals, conspiracies, juntoscartels, syndicates, trustsfactions, fronts, fusions, sides, wingsassociations, groups, organizationsaffiliations, cooperatives, partnershipscircuits, conferences to let go from office, service, or employmentthe boss will ax anyone who leaks company secrets bounces, cans, cashiers, discharges, dismisses, fires, musters out, pink-slips, releases, removes, retires, sacks, terminates, turns off downsizes, excesses, furloughs, lays off, trimsboots (out), chucks (out), drums (out), kicks out, throws out, unseatsseparates sends packing, shows (someone) the door employs, engages, hires, retains, signs (up or on), takes on keepsreemploys, rehirescontracts, subcontractsrecruits |