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axe
- IPA[aks]
美式
- a tool typically used for chopping wood, usually a steel blade attached at a right angle to a wooden handle;a measure intended to reduce costs drastically, especially one that involves elimination of staff
- end, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly;reduce (costs or services) drastically
verb: axe, 3rd person present: axes, gerund or present participle: axing, past tense: axed, past participle: axed
noun: axe, plural noun: axes
- 釋義
- 片語
名詞
- 1. a tool typically used for chopping wood, usually a steel blade attached at a right angle to a wooden handle I started swinging the axe at the lumps of driftwood an axe blade
- ▪ a measure intended to reduce costs drastically, especially one that involves elimination of staff thirty workers are facing the axe in the assembly department
- 2. informal a musical instrument, especially one played by a jazz or rock musician.
動詞
- 1. end, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly the company is axing 125 jobs 2,500 staff were axed as part of the realignment 同義詞
- ▪ reduce (costs or services) drastically the candidates all promised to axe government spending
- 2. cut or strike with an axe, especially violently or destructively the door had been axed by the firefighters