axe
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Is axe a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (informal) A dismissal or rejection.Examples: "His girlfriend/boss/schoolmaster gave him the axe."Synonyms: chop, pink slip, sack, bootinformal
2. (figurative) A drastic reduction or cutback.Examples: "the Beeching Axe"; "I had a job in the great North Woods Workin' as a cook for a spell But I never did like it all that much And one day the axe just fell"; "But P'u-yi was nothing if not soft when it came to family, and he arranged for the young man to live with his uncle Beitzu P'u-hsiu in P'u-yi's old house in T'ien-ching. So Yü-t'ai was well clear of Ch'ang-ch'un when the axe fell in 1945."figuratively
3. (slang, music) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.slang
4. (finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.Examples: "A financial dealer has an axe in a stock that his buyers don't know about, giving him an advantage in making the most profit."
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To fell or chop with an axe.transitive
2. (transitive, figurative) To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.Examples: "The government announced its plans to axe public spending."; "The broadcaster axed the series because far fewer people than expected watched it."; "He got axed in the last round of firings."Synonyms: downsize, fire, lay off, axe, can, decruit, dehire, discardfigurativelytransitive
noun (English)
1. (archaic) The axle of a wheel.archaic
verb (English)
1. (now obsolete outside dialects, especially African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of ask.Examples: "Axe and it ſhalbe geven you. Seke and ye ſhall fynd / Knocke and it ſhalbe opened vnto you."; "I axe you—have I said one word about that little matter to-day?"; "I axe him to sit down and drink some of my wine, but he says no thanks, he just come to axe me a question."alt-ofalternativedialectalobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary