AXE

(REDUCE), US also ax [verb] [T] - to reduce (services, jobs, payments) greatly or completely without warning or in a single actionRural railway lines risk being axed because they are unprofitable.The city council is axing recycling facilities in order to save money.Because of the recession the company is to axe 350 jobs/20% of the workforce.The TV series/magazine will be axed owing to a decline in popularity.The committee is likely to recommend the axing of the nuclear project.The axe is the act of having your job taken away.More than 500 workers within the company are threatened with the axe.Already the BSB half of the merged UK satellite operation has felt the sharp edge of News's job axe and the British newspaper side has been ordered to tighten its belt.axeaxeaxeaxeaxeThey got the axe after they were discovered stealing computers from the office.If a service, plan, etc. gets the axe it is stopped or prevented from happening.Religious programmes will be the first to get the axe (= be removed) if she's put in charge of the station.