axe
Type
Noun
Meaning
A tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a wooden handle, used for chopping wood.
He grabbed an axe from the shed to split firewood before the winter storm.
To abruptly cancel, dismiss, or drastically reduce a project, budget, or staff.
The studio decided to axe the entire department after poor quarterly earnings.
Collocations
- battle axe
- axe handle
- sharp axe
- axe jobs
- axe funding
Idioms
have an axe to grind
to have a private or selfish motive for doing something
He criticized the project severely because he had an axe to grind with the lead designer.
get the axe
to be fired from a job or discontinued
Dozens of contractors got the axe when the merger fell through.