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Other crossword clues for answer "AXING"

AXING
Clear cut job?
Getting rid of
Giving the pink slip
Making staff cuts
Feller's job
Taking off the payroll
Terminating
Firing
Giving the sack
Tree work
Personnel job
Pink-slipping
Giving the old heave-ho
Cutting
Chopping down
Knocking down
Breaking open, perhaps
Hatchet job
Hewing
Paul Bunyan activity
Hatchet man's job
Lumberjack's activity
Dismissal
Chopping.
Job for a logger
Lumberman's activity
Action for Bunyan
Cutting out
Cutting down
Canner's activity
Downsizing, so to speak
Canner's job
Giving a pink slip
Canceling
Letting go of
Handing out pink slips
Downsizer's task
Cutting from the payroll
Personnel director's task
Giving the heave-ho to
Personnel task
Giving the heave-ho