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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   axe

   • IPA[aks]

   美式

   • n.
     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
   • v.
     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

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   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.

   v.

   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 cancel, withdraw, drop, abandon, end, ... 更多terminate, put an end to, discontinue, informalscrap, cut, junk, ditch, dump, give something the chop, pull the plug on, knock something on the head, dismiss, give someone notice, throw out, get rid of, lay off, let go, discharge, make redundant, informalsack, fire, kick out, boot out, give someone the sack, give someone the boot, give someone the bullet, give someone the (old) heave-ho, give someone the push, give someone their marching orders, show someone the door, give someone the elbow, give someone their cards
   • ▪ 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

   片語

   • have an axe to grind