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/æks/ · noun
A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it..
His girlfriend/boss/schoolmaster gave him the axe.
the Beeching Axe
The tractor plant is slated for the axe.
I had a job in the great North Woods Workin' as a cook for a spell But I never did like it all that much And one day the axe just fell
But P'u-yi was nothing if not soft when it came to family, and he arranged for the young man to live with his uncle Beitzu P'u-hsiu in P'u-yi's old house in T'ien-ching. So Yü-t'ai was well clear of Ch'ang-ch'un when the axe fell in 1945.
Back in 1963, how could Beeching advocate closure of the electrified Liverpool-Southport commuter route, just because its books didn't balance? The busy North London line between Richmond and Broad Street was also for the axe, as was Leeds to Bradford and Ilkley.
A financial dealer has an axe in a stock that his buyers don't know about, giving him an advantage in making the most profit.
The government announced its plans to axe public spending.
Use axe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Axe means A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it..
Common synonyms include chop, pink slip, sack, boot.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
His girlfriend/boss/schoolmaster gave him the axe.
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