| 释义 |
deˈhire, v. N. Amer. euphem.
[f. de- II. 1 + hire v.]
trans. To discharge (an employee, esp. an executive) from a position; to ‘sack’ or ‘fire’. Also deˈhiring vbl. n.
1970Guardian Weekly 5 Sept. 22 The pinched corporation..fires the chairman of the board. Fires is a rude word, but the bouncing of the boss is happening now on such a scale that Wall Street is mushrooming with firms bearing the weird names of ‘Dehiring Consultants, Inc.’ and ‘Executive Adjustment Advisers’... In a depression, the boss is sacked and jumps from a window. In the ‘recedence’, he is ‘dehired’. 1977Time May 328/1 These half dozen or so organizations, known in the doublespeak world of consulting as ‘out-placement’ or ‘de-hiring’ firms, steel the courage of the executives who have to do the firing. 1980Amer. Speech LV. 272 It is presumably more fashionable to be dehired than to be fired. 1982Forbes (N.Y.) 10 May 200/2 ‘Outplacement specialists’... That's a fancy name for the folks whose business it is to ‘dehire’ (i.e., to help fire) executives. |