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It is the past tense form of the verb "axe," which means to cut or chop with an axe. Example: The old tree was axed down to make room for the new building.
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It will be piloted in north-east England from June, with the network of inquiry centres – stretching from Penzance in the south-west to Wick in the Highlands – due to be axed next year.
And it will not have been forgotten that the first offering whose launch he graced as DG, The White Queen, was axed after a single series.
Beast remembers 20 years ago when Seven axed Real Life with Stan Grant and replaced it with local versions of Today Tonight.
The man who said Morris Iemma would be axed as New South Wales premier as part of a deal to benefit Australian Water Holdings has told the corruption inquiry it was speculation on his part and he did not have specific knowledge.
So has Page 3 been axed or not?
NBC's remake of BBC2 comedy Coupling was axed after four episodes in 2003, with creator Steven Moffat – now Doctor Who showrunner – memorably berating the network for meddling with the show.
But scripted comedies and dramas have invariably lost something in translation — ABC's remake of Life on Mars was axed after one series, CBS's Blackpool remake Viva Laughlin starring Hugh Jackman was dropped after just two episodes, while Spaced and The IT Crowd failed to make it past the pilot stage.
Antony Jenkins, who took over as Barclays boss when Bob Diamond was forced out as a result of the Libor-rigging scandal, will announce on Tuesday that the tax planning part of the structured capital markets (SCM) division – which has been accused of orchestrating tax avoidance on an "industrial scale" and has generated vast profits for the bank – is to be axed.
But the public will take no more notice of Lib Dem ministers hailing a "progressive" schedule of debt interest rates than they took when Gordon Brown explained that the budget in which he had axed the 10p tax rate was technically progressive.
There was, however, consolation of sorts for the British writer Abi Morgan, who won an Emmy for The Hour, the 1950s-set television news drama that was axed by the BBC after two series.
400 JOBS TO GO IN NEWCASTLE The ripples of 9/11 have reached the Tyne almost one year on: 400 jobs are to be axed by Siemens Power Generation at their CA Parsons plant in Newcastle.
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