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📖 Определения и значения для слова axe

📒 a tool with a wooden handle and a heavy metal blade, used for cutting up wood, cutting down trees, etc.

  • to chop a tree down with an axe
  • The executioner's axe fell.
  • With a few swift blows of the axe, she severed the cable.

📒 if somebody gets the axe, they lose their job; if an institution or a project gets the axe, it is closed or stopped, usually because of a lack of money

  • Up to 300 workers are facing the axe at a struggling Merseyside firm.
  • Patients are delighted their local hospital has been saved from the axe.
  • Protesters, anxious over the spending cuts, urged councillors to think again before wielding the axe.

📒 to have private reasons for being involved in something or for arguing for a particular cause

  • She had no axe to grind and was only acting out of concern for their safety.
  • These criticisms are commonly voiced by those who have some political axe to grind.
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