Definition of "axing" []

• Present participle of axe. (verb)

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• "It won't make him popular, but George Osborne has taken the right decision in axing child benefit for higher rate taxpayers."
• "Keller, who created the position as first order of business when he took over from Howell Raines in 2003, raised the idea of axing it at an in-house Q&A in December."
• "Wal-Mart reportedly called the axing of the meat cutters "the ultimate union avoidance strategy.""