AXING

Making staff cuts

• Action for Bunyan

• Breaking open, perhaps

• Canner's activity

• Canner's job

• Chopping down

• Cutting down

• Cutting from the payroll

• Cutting out

• Dismissal

• Dismissing abruptly

• Downsizer's task

• Downsizing, so to speak

• Firing

• Getting rid of

• Giving a pink slip

• Giving the boot

• Giving the old heave-ho

• Giving the pink slip

• Giving the sack

• Handing out pink slips

• Hatchet man's job

• Knocking down

• Letting go

• Lumberjack's activity

• Lumberman's activity

• Personnel director's task

• Personnel job

• Personnel task

• Pink-slipping

• Slangy firing

• Taking off the payroll

• Terminating

• Tree work

• Using chop-sticks?