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to reduce services, jobs, payments, etc. a lot or completely without warning or in a single action: Because of the recession the company is to axe 350 jobs. The TV series will be axed owing to a decline in popularity. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Becoming and making smaller or less.
Synonyms for AXING: sacking, removing, dismissing, firing, retiring, releasing, terminating, discharging; Antonyms of AXING: employing, hiring, retaining, engaging, keeping, signing (up or on), taking on, rehiring
noun. : a cutting tool that consists of a heavy edged head fixed to a handle with the edge parallel to the handle and that is used especially for felling trees and chopping and splitting wood.
Definition of axe verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. a tool with a blade on a handle or helve, used for hewing, cleaving, chopping, etc. 2. Slang. a jazz instrument, esp. a guitar or saxophone. 3. the ax, a. a sudden, peremptory dismissal, as from a job. b. a usu. summary removal or curtailment. v.t. 4. to shape or trim with an ax.
the situation in which someone loses their job: Over 500 staff are facing the axe. get the axe (US also get the ax) When a service, plan, etc. gets the axe, it is stopped or prevented from happening: Religious programmes will be the first to get the axe if she's put in charge of the station. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Tools.
axing typically occurs about 0.02 times per million words in modern written English. axing is in frequency band 3, which contains words occurring between 0.01 and 0.1 times per million words in modern written English.
