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axe1 (also ax American English) /æks/ ●●○ noun [countable]  1. TZa tool with a heavy metal blade on the end of a long handle, used to cut down trees or split pieces of wood 斧头，长柄斧 → pickaxe2  the axe informalLEAVE A JOB OR ORGANIZATION if someone gets the axe, they are dismissed from their job 被解雇，被开除 A hundred workers are facing the axe in a cost-cutting exercise. 在削减成本的运作中，100名工人面临解雇。3  the axe informalGET RID OF if a plan, system, or service gets the axe, someone gets rid of it 取消 MPs know there will be cuts in public spending but do not know on which department the axe will fall. 议员们都知道要削减公共开支，但是不知道从哪个部门开刀。4  have an axe to grind PERSUADEto have a strong personal opinion about something which is the reason why you do something 别有企图，有个人动机，有私心 I need objective advice from someone with no axe to grind. 我需要公正无私的人给我一些客观的建议。

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axe• Her brother Arijs was an axe murderer.• Attractive young women fanned him as he simultaneously read, wrote, waved an axe and held a flower aloft.• In Crete, we also find the double axe engraved on stalactite columns in caves.• Suppose now that we wish to search the database for axes similar in shape to some given axe.• The strong hand of Skeggi, still half-laid on his axe.• A dozen men and women clad in furs were polishing axes and broadswords monotonously, mindlessly.• When they returned each carried a handful of small axes.axe2 (also ax American English) verb [transitive]  1  LEAVE A JOB OR ORGANIZATIONto suddenly dismiss someone from their job 突然解雇，突然开除 There are plans to axe 2,600 staff. 有计划要解雇2,600名员工。2  GET RID OFto get rid of a plan, system, or service, especially in order to save money 〔尤指为省钱〕砍掉；取消；废止 TV’s longest running show is to be axed. 连续播出时间最长的电视节目要取消了。→ See Verb table

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axe• Boro striker Bernie Slaven looked angry before the kick-off after he was axed.• More than 9,000 staff have been axed and about another 11,000 have departed in businesses sold off.• And there was almost a mass brawl 10 minutes before the break after Mark Robson was axed by Gianfranco Parlato.• Now his firm has been axed from school duties in Swansea and faces prosecution.• But axing Julia won't save the revamped News At Ten.• Ironically, he was axed less than three weeks before Boro's first Wembley appearance.From Longman Business Dictionaryaxeaxe1 /æks/ (also ax American English) verb [transitive] informal1JOBif a company axes jobs, it suddenly dismisses people in those jobs in order to reduce costsThe company announced plans to axe 300 jobs.2to suddenly get rid of a plan or service, or reduce the amount of money spent on itThe airline’s transatlantic service is to be axed next month.→ See Verb tableaxeaxe2 (also ax American English) nounJOB1get/be given the axe if someone gets the axe or is given the axe, they are suddenly dismissed from their job because the company wants to reduce costs. If a plan, project, or service gets the axe, it is stopped in order to reduce costsA lot of managers are now getting the axe.2the axe falls if the axe falls, someone is dismissed from their job or a plan, project, or service is stopped because a company needs to reduce its costsThe axe is now falling on people whose talents have been praised only months earlier.

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axe¹ (also ax American English) /æks/ noun [countable]

1. a tool with a heavy metal blade on the end of a long handle, used to cut down trees or split pieces of wood ⇨ pickaxe
2. the axe informal if someone gets the axe, they are dismissed from their job:
    100 workers are facing the axe in a cost-cutting exercise.
3. the axe informal if a plan, system, or service gets the axe, someone gets rid of it:
    MPs know there will be cuts in public spending but do not know on which department the axe will fall.
4. have an axe to grind to have a strong personal opinion about something which is the reason why you do something:
    I need objective advice from someone with no axe to grind.

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axe² (also ax American English) verb [transitive]
1. to suddenly dismiss someone from their job:
    There are plans to axe 2,600 staff.
2. to get rid of a plan, system, or service, especially in order to save money:
    TV’s longest running show is to be axed.