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
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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
- plural form of axis
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- plural form of axis
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- an axe with two blades.
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- a person who commits murder with an axe (frequently used to evoke an image of a violent ... a convicted axe murderer you could be an axe murderer for all I know!
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- an axe used by climbers for cutting footholds in ice, having a head with one pointed and one ...
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- a type of kick used in taekwondo and other martial arts, in which the opponent's head is ...
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- an axe used by climbers for cutting footholds in ice, having a head with one pointed and one ...
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- a butcher's cleaver.
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英式
- a tool used for chopping wood, typically of iron with a steel edge and wooden handle: I started swinging the axe at the lumps of driftwood an axe blade
- end, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly: the company is axing 125 jobs 2,500 staff were axed as part of a rationalization programme
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