dehirev.
North American. euphemistic.
transitive. To discharge (an employee, esp. an executive) from a position; to ‘sack’ or ‘fire’.
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss or discharge
to put awaya1387
discharge1428
dismiss1477
to put out of wages1542
discard1589
to turn away1602
to put off1608
disemploy1619
to pay off1648
to pay off1651
to turn out1667
to turn off1676
quietus1688
strip1756
trundle1794
unshop1839
shopc1840
to lay off1841
sack1841
drop1845
to give (a person) the shoot1846
bag1848
swap1862
fire1879
to knock off1881
bounce1884
to give (a person) the pushc1886
to give (a person) the boot or the order of the boot1888
bump1899
spear1911
to strike (a medical practitioner, etc.) off the register1911
terminate1920
tramp1941
shitcan1961
pink slip1966
dehire1970
resize1975
to give a person his jotters1990
1970 Guardian Weekly 5 Sept. 22 In a depression, the boss is sacked and jumps from a window. In the ‘recedence’, he is ‘dehired’.
1980 Amer. Speech 55 272 It is presumably more fashionable to be dehired than to be fired.
1982 Forbes 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.
Derivatives
deˈhiring n.
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [adjective] > dismissing or discharging
fired1902
dehiring1970
1970 Guardian 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’.
1977 Time 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.
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