Answer:

axing

Answer	Crossword Clue
AXING	Getting rid of
AXING	Giving the pink slip
AXING	Making staff cuts

AXING	Personnel job
AXING	Firing
AXING	Pink-slipping
AXING	Giving the old heave-ho
AXING	Taking off the payroll
AXING	Terminating
AXING	Giving the sack
AXING	Tree work

AXING	Knocking down
AXING	Chopping down
AXING	Breaking open, perhaps
AXING	Hatchet job
AXING	Hatchet man's job
AXING	Lumberjack's activity
AXING	Dismissal
AXING	Chopping.

AXING	Hewing
AXING	Job for a logger
AXING	Lumberman's activity
AXING	Action for Bunyan
AXING	Cutting out
AXING	Cutting down
AXING	Canner's activity
AXING	Downsizing, so to speak

AXING	Canner's job
AXING	Giving a pink slip
AXING	Handing out pink slips
AXING	Downsizer's task
AXING	Cutting from the payroll
AXING	Personnel director's task
AXING	Personnel task
AXING	Canceling

Crossword

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