axe

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

axesax

1.
A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
2.
An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
3.
(informal)A dismissal or rejection.
His girlfriend/boss/schoolmaster gave him the axe.
Đồng nghĩa: chop, pink slip, sack, boot
4.
(figuratively)(figurative) A drastic reduction or cutback.
the Beeching Axe
The tractor plant is slated for the axe.
5.
(slang)(slang, music) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
6.
(finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
A financial dealer has an axe in a stock that his buyers don't know about, giving him an advantage in making the most profit.
7.
(archaic)The axle of a wheel.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

axes

V_ing/Gerund

axing

V_ed/pp

axeingaxed

1.
(transitive)To fell or chop with an axe.
2.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.
The government announced its plans to axe public spending.
The broadcaster axed the series because far fewer people than expected watched it.
He got axed in the last round of firings.
Đồng nghĩa: downsize, fire, lay off, axe, can, decruit, dehire, discard, remove, discharge, dismiss, downsize, fire, give the axe, give someone the boot, give someone their cards, give the chop, give the elbow, give someone the heave-ho, give someone the old heave-ho, lay off, let go, let someone go, make redundant, pink slip, promote to customer, retrench, sack, serve notice, shit-can, term, terminate, throw out, unhire
3.
To furnish with an axle.
4.
(alt of, alternative, dialectal, obsolete)(now obsolete outside dialects, especially African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of ask.

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Đồng nghĩa

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Nguồn gốc từ

thumb|An axe From Middle English ax, axe, ex, from Old English æx (axe), from *akusi (axe), from Proto-Germanic *akwisī (axe), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷsih₂ (axe), from *h₂eḱ- (sharp, pointed). Cognate with aix axe, aks axe, Axt axe, økse axe, øks axe, öxi axe, yxa axe, ascia.