push sb out
— phrasal verb with push uk/pʊʃ/us/pʊʃ/verb
to make someone leave a job or stop being involved in an activity by being unpleasant or unfair to them:
I felt I was being pushed out of the job.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
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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