as in dismissals
the termination of the employment of an employee or a work force often temporarily
the company was hemorrhaging money, so 700 employees would soon be given the ax
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as in centers
a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest
in addition to being the suburb's social axis, the country club is the place where deals are made and partnerships are forged
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as in alliances
an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection
an axis of previously nonaligned nations
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as in sacks
to let go from office, service, or employment
the boss will ax anyone who leaks company secrets
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Recent Examples of axes
Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
A number of people have said, the reason the ax thing is probably in people’s head is the work group with its logs and its axes were sitting offstage.
—Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 18 Dec. 2024
Nonetheless, viewing a depiction of business value and technical value on X and Y axes portrays a more integrative approach to enterprise storage.
—Eric Herzog, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
The beams show the marks of the carpenters’ handiwork, with dents made on the woodwork by their hand axes.
—Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
Especially prized were masters of medieval crafts, such as hand-hewing oak beams with axes for the cathedral’s roughly 300-foot-long roof.
—Dana Thomas, Architectural Digest, 20 Nov. 2024
This model uses a box with four quadrants and two axes—the mission-critical axis and the market differentiation axis—to illustrate where technological innovation and investment are best employed.
—Bj Vander Linden, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Choose the axes for the quadrant based on what’s important to your target market.
—Natalie Nathanson, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Notre-Dame’s medieval artisans—the blacksmiths who forged the axes, hewers who squared the timber, joiners who connected the timbers without nails or screws—represented a savoir-faire, or expertise, that has all but died out in the age of Ikea.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2024
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The incident comes as knives and other sharp objects, such as scissors and axes, were involved in 97,183 homicides worldwide in 2017, representing 22 percent of all murders that year, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's 2019 Global Study on Homicide.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
A number of people have said, the reason the ax thing is probably in people’s head is the work group with its logs and its axes were sitting offstage.
—Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 18 Dec. 2024
Nonetheless, viewing a depiction of business value and technical value on X and Y axes portrays a more integrative approach to enterprise storage.
—Eric Herzog, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
The beams show the marks of the carpenters’ handiwork, with dents made on the woodwork by their hand axes.
—Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
Especially prized were masters of medieval crafts, such as hand-hewing oak beams with axes for the cathedral’s roughly 300-foot-long roof.
—Dana Thomas, Architectural Digest, 20 Nov. 2024
This model uses a box with four quadrants and two axes—the mission-critical axis and the market differentiation axis—to illustrate where technological innovation and investment are best employed.
—Bj Vander Linden, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
Choose the axes for the quadrant based on what’s important to your target market.
—Natalie Nathanson, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Notre-Dame’s medieval artisans—the blacksmiths who forged the axes, hewers who squared the timber, joiners who connected the timbers without nails or screws—represented a savoir-faire, or expertise, that has all but died out in the age of Ikea.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Axes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/axes. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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