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Noun: the axe
Usage: informal
  1. The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
    - dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking, heave-ho [informal], chuck [Brit, informal], severance, the boot [informal], the chop [Brit, informal]

Type of: conclusion, ending, termination

Nearest

thaw
thawed
thawing
ThB
THC
ThD
the
the absurd
The Admirable Crichton
the Alps
the axe
the bee's knees
the bends
The Blitz
the boot
the chop
the City
The Dagda
the devil
the Flood
the fuzz