marching ordersnoun [ plural ]
ukusinformalUK US walking papers If you give someone their marching orders, you ask that person to leave a place or a job because they have done something wrong:
Three players got their marching orders last week.
She was called into the boss's office and given her marching orders.
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Firing staff
- axe
- be out on your ear idiom
- chop
- constructive dismissal
- defrock
- delayering
- furlough
- get the push idiom
- give sb the heave-ho idiom
- grass
- heave-ho
- invalid sb out
- pension
- relieve
- removal
- remove
- retire
- sack
- sacking
- shakeout
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US instructions from someone in authority about what you should do:
He was waiting for new marching orders from the White House.