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Definition of pink slip in English: pink slipnoun North American informal A notice of dismissal from employment. Example sentencesExamples - Dealers were left with large inventories of parts and no factory support, while thousands of employees received pink slips with their last paychecks three days before Christmas.
- In the Department of Transportation, pink slips will go out to 83 workers, mostly at city parking lots and at the Staten Island ferry, which would see its already crowded rush-hour service reduced by 25 percent.
- This request for donations came to us the very same week that our activity aides received their pink slips.
- Bank One has recently announced that 5,100 employees will get pink slips.
- One week ago, approximately 250 employees received pink slips.
- The workers given pink slips this week include employees and contractors.
- We're sure the company could use some refinements, but we doubt the 1700 admin, marketing and support staff about to get pink slips will be too happy about it.
- A Thanksgiving Day morale booster for federal air marshals has instead turned into possible pink slips for air cops who ignore their strict dress code.
- I intend today's post to answer several lingering questions about what happened yesterday when I lost my job and about events that led up to the final pink slip.
- Across the country, school and hospital personnel are being handed pink slips, environmental protections are being scaled back, unemployment is rising, and our roads and bridges are crumbling.
- Right around Christmas time, people were receiving pink slips.
- While other city employees have received pink slips, no cops are scheduled to be laid off.
- The 60-foreign contract workers will be given pink slips once their contracts are up, the company said.
- Analog initially estimated that 509 employees would receive pink slips, but only 439 workers were ultimately laid off.
- The computer staff will get pink slips too, but it is reasonable to infer the axe will fall most heavily on software sales and back office workers.
- There's another reason to be on your best behavior in December: the possibility pink slips will show up in some stockings.
- The company declined to comment on reports that as many as one in ten of its 160,000 US employees could receive pink slips.
- Here is a man so richly deserving of a pink slip that his dismissal on such minor grounds leaves a sour taste.
- It's about the emotional trauma suffered by those who get caught-up in the blizzard of pink slips in today's harsh, corporate climate.
- When so many workers are given pink slips at once, it gets in the news - and the labor department, which tracks this data, reports that there were more than 2,000 mass layoffs last year.
verb [with object]North American informal Dismiss (someone) from employment. along with thousands of other steelworkers, I got pink-slipped Example sentencesExamples - The darkest moment came in the spring of 2001, when 400 of his colleagues were pink-slipped.
- Alston never quite fits in and is pink-slipped.
- Being harassed out of the office is no better than being pink-slipped out.
- Owner Jerry Jones wasted little time in pink-slipping Dave Smith and hiring Bill Brown, the quintessential fixer-upper.
- As Brown hears it, when pitching coach Acosta told Baylor of the Newtonian unrest, it was Acosta who was pink-slipped.
- The wage cuts, dated back to April 1, mean pink-slipped staff will get a bill for overpaid wages as well.
Origin Early 20th century: from the pink paper on which some notices of dismissal were formerly written. Definition of pink slip in US English: pink slipnounˈpɪŋk ˌslɪpˈpiNGk ˌslip North American informal A notice of dismissal from employment. Example sentencesExamples - We're sure the company could use some refinements, but we doubt the 1700 admin, marketing and support staff about to get pink slips will be too happy about it.
- When so many workers are given pink slips at once, it gets in the news - and the labor department, which tracks this data, reports that there were more than 2,000 mass layoffs last year.
- It's about the emotional trauma suffered by those who get caught-up in the blizzard of pink slips in today's harsh, corporate climate.
- I intend today's post to answer several lingering questions about what happened yesterday when I lost my job and about events that led up to the final pink slip.
- Bank One has recently announced that 5,100 employees will get pink slips.
- The computer staff will get pink slips too, but it is reasonable to infer the axe will fall most heavily on software sales and back office workers.
- The company declined to comment on reports that as many as one in ten of its 160,000 US employees could receive pink slips.
- Dealers were left with large inventories of parts and no factory support, while thousands of employees received pink slips with their last paychecks three days before Christmas.
- Here is a man so richly deserving of a pink slip that his dismissal on such minor grounds leaves a sour taste.
- A Thanksgiving Day morale booster for federal air marshals has instead turned into possible pink slips for air cops who ignore their strict dress code.
- While other city employees have received pink slips, no cops are scheduled to be laid off.
- In the Department of Transportation, pink slips will go out to 83 workers, mostly at city parking lots and at the Staten Island ferry, which would see its already crowded rush-hour service reduced by 25 percent.
- Right around Christmas time, people were receiving pink slips.
- There's another reason to be on your best behavior in December: the possibility pink slips will show up in some stockings.
- One week ago, approximately 250 employees received pink slips.
- The workers given pink slips this week include employees and contractors.
- Analog initially estimated that 509 employees would receive pink slips, but only 439 workers were ultimately laid off.
- The 60-foreign contract workers will be given pink slips once their contracts are up, the company said.
- Across the country, school and hospital personnel are being handed pink slips, environmental protections are being scaled back, unemployment is rising, and our roads and bridges are crumbling.
- This request for donations came to us the very same week that our activity aides received their pink slips.
verbˈpɪŋk ˌslɪpˈpiNGk ˌslip [with object]North American informal Dismiss (someone) from employment. along with thousands of other steelworkers, I got pink-slipped Example sentencesExamples - Being harassed out of the office is no better than being pink-slipped out.
- Alston never quite fits in and is pink-slipped.
- The darkest moment came in the spring of 2001, when 400 of his colleagues were pink-slipped.
- As Brown hears it, when pitching coach Acosta told Baylor of the Newtonian unrest, it was Acosta who was pink-slipped.
- The wage cuts, dated back to April 1, mean pink-slipped staff will get a bill for overpaid wages as well.
- Owner Jerry Jones wasted little time in pink-slipping Dave Smith and hiring Bill Brown, the quintessential fixer-upper.
Origin Early 20th century: from the pink paper on which some notices of dismissal were formerly written. |