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the chopBritish informal 1Dismissal from employment: hundreds more workers have been given the chop...- The board has, however, held out on implementing the redundancy of the three employees yet to receive the chop and is awaiting the proposed intervention by the Labour Minister.
- An announcement about exactly how many employees face the chop is expected within the next two weeks or so.
- During a company downsizing, the first employees to get the chop are older people.
1.1Cancellation or abolition: all these projects are destined for the chop...- Colchester MP Bob Russell is demanding to know if more of the town's post offices are destined for the chop.
- The retailer is looking seriously at the sub post offices in its stores around the country and it has already identified several as candidates for the chop.
- Alex Martin, of Gorse Hill, and Sarah Newman, of Old Town, say they are appalled that Malmesbury's small midwife-led maternity unit faces the chop.
1.2The action of killing someone or the fact of being killed: seven men we all knew had got the chop...- In November she got a criminal record after her pet pit bull gored a child (the dog escaped the chop thanks to her top-dollar brief).
- Each year, around 10 million turkeys are slaughtered for the Christmas table and millions of pigs, ducks and geese will get the chop, too.
- With a fixed grin on his face he drew his finger across his throat and pointed at the journalists below - a bizarre gesture with which he seemed to suggest it was not him, but the media who were somehow facing the chop.
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