AXED

Plied a hatchet

• Abruptly dismissed

• Abruptly fired

• Abruptly let go

• Abruptly purged from the payroll

• Broke open, in a way

• Brought down, in a way

• Canceled

• Canceled, as a TV show

• Canned

• Canned a member

• Chopped

• Chopped down

• Clear cut?

• Cut

• Cut down

• Cut from the company roster

• Cut from the payroll

• Cut from the roster

• Cut from the staff

• Cut spending

• Cut staff

• Cut, in a way

• Discharged, slangily

• Dismissed

• Dispensed with

• Dumped

• Felled

• Fired

• Fired ruthlessly

• Fired, in slang

• Fired, informally

• Gave a pink slip

• Gave a pink slip to

• Gave pink slips to

• Gave the boot

• Gave the boot to

• Gave the gate to

• Gave the pink slip

• Gave the pink slip to

• Gave the sack

• Gave walking papers to

• Given the heave-ho

• Given the old heave-ho

• Got rid of

• Got rid of, as an agency

• Got rid of, in a way

• Hatcheted

• Heftily hewn

• Hewed

• Hewed, in a way

• In a split way

• Involuntarily let go

• Involuntarily out of a job

• Laid off

• Laid off, as workers

• Laid off, less politely

• Let go

• Let go from the job

• Like many slacking employees

• More than laid off

• Not renewed

• Off the payroll

• Out of a job

• Pink-slipped

• Purged from the payroll

• Removed ruthlessly

• Ruthlessly removed

• Sacked

• Sent packing

• Split, as logs

• Split, in a way

• Split, maybe

• Summarily let go

• Terminated

• Terminated abruptly

• Terminated ruthlessly

• Took a bough?

• Took a hatchet to

• Took down

• Used a hatchet

• Went chopping