英语词汇“the axe”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. the axe (figurative): the cutting down of expenditure in the public services; the body appointed to do this. Also in other extended uses, esp. the dismissal of an employee.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > moderation or reduction in expenditure > [noun] > in public expenditure

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1922 Glasgow Herald 5 Oct. 7 Another class of military officers for some of whom assistance..may be needed are those who are the unhappy victims of the Geddes economy ‘axe’.

1923 Times 16 Mar. 12/1 Army and the ‘axe’. Limit of safety reached... No fewer than 1,500 officers had fallen before the Geddes axe.

1926 Encycl. Brit. New Suppl. II. 160/2 Sir Eric [Geddes] himself was appointed in Aug. 1921 chairman of a small committee, later known as the ‘Geddes Axe’, to recommend public economies to the Government.

1926 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Jan. The Inchcape Axe has not deprived students of the Memoirs issued by the Archæological Survey.

1958 Economist 1 Nov. 390/1 Capital formation should never again become the first candidate for the axe when times for restraint recur.

单词	the axe
释义	> as lemmas the axe b. the axe (figurative): the cutting down of expenditure in the public services; the body appointed to do this. Also in other extended uses, esp. the dismissal of an employee. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > moderation or reduction in expenditure > [noun] > in public expenditure the axe1922 1922 Glasgow Herald 5 Oct. 7 Another class of military officers for some of whom assistance..may be needed are those who are the unhappy victims of the Geddes economy ‘axe’. 1923 Times 16 Mar. 12/1 Army and the ‘axe’. Limit of safety reached... No fewer than 1,500 officers had fallen before the Geddes axe. 1926 Encycl. Brit. New Suppl. II. 160/2 Sir Eric [Geddes] himself was appointed in Aug. 1921 chairman of a small committee, later known as the ‘Geddes Axe’, to recommend public economies to the Government. 1926 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Jan. The Inchcape Axe has not deprived students of the Memoirs issued by the Archæological Survey. 1958 Economist 1 Nov. 390/1 Capital formation should never again become the first candidate for the axe when times for restraint recur. extracted from axeaxn.¹ < as lemmas
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