Definition of "axemen" []

• Plural form of axeman. (noun)

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• "This breakdown in industrial relations can only escalate after the general election, whoever wins, as the 'axemen' begin hacking jobs and services in the strongly unionised public sector."
• "Each log was hand-hewed and squared -- an expensive whim when the axemen received a daily wage of fifteen dollars; but to him nothing could be too costly for the home in which Mabel Holmes was to live."
• "Labour tribalists won't believe this, and the Treasury axemen won't like it, but it is quite rare to find a minister, Conservative or Lib Dem, who relishes firing people."