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red-circle, v.
To separate out by circling in red ink; usu. fig.; spec. (see quots. 1974 and 1977). Hence red-circling vbl. n.
1965E. Brown Big Man xxiii. 202 The night had been red-circled for pleasure and for entertainment. 1973Maclean's Mag. July 63/1 This was not a problem peculiar to the Trudeau regime, but it grew worse when the Treasury Board approved a plan to ‘red circle’ my 28 senior officers, the heart of my department. Ibid., He suggested that if a committee were set up, the impending red circling might be avoided. 1974Globe & Mail (Toronto) 14 Feb. 1/2 [The secretaries] fear their position will be further downgraded by a reclassification scheme undertaken by the Treasury Board, whereby secretaries could be red-circled—held in their current pay bracket until the new secretarial classifications catch up to them. The possibility of red-circling has stalled salary negotiations between the Treasury Board and the Public Service Alliance of Canada. 1976Ibid. 15 Sept. 1/2 The alliance said red-circling is not permitted and that an employee can only be demoted if he is proved to be incompetent or incapable of performing the duties of his position. 1977Spare Rib May 22/1 Certain men at Vauxhall's were ‘red circled’, placed in a special category to preserve their higher rate of pay. (It is called ‘red circling’ when workers moved on to a job with a lower rate of pay take their previous higher rate with them.) |