The word 'nix' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a slang term that means to veto, cancel, or reject. Example: The board of directors nixed the proposed merger, citing concerns about potential financial risks.
We see this attitude at work in the Oklahoma state legislator's recent proposal to nix Advanced Placement American history courses on the grounds that such courses, by teaching some actual history, tend to cast the country's past in a rather unflattering light.
In an earnest effort to nix subjectivity from reviews, critics have gone too far, leaving us with a bag of adjectives that say a lot about price, and almost nothing about flavour.This does not, of course, mean that the entire repertory of wine terms deserves to be consigned to the spittoon.
But, goes the counter-argument, the very threat that shareholders could nix egregious packages might put downward pressure on rewards that have got out of control.At the root of all this is the widening gap between executive pay and corporate performance.
Most of its large competitors have had all three.In this section Sheltering from the storm Tell it straight Unproductive Reshuffling the titles Mags nix ethix trix From cul-de-sac to crossroads The art of overtaking Surviving Wall Street's blues ReprintsOf expensive acquisitions, Mr Fuld comments baldly, "we could not figure out how to make them pay".
Second, taking the bull by the hand, nix those mixed metaphors.
The health and welfare minister, Junichiro Koizumi, wants Nenpuku abolished.Don't nix NenpukuThat would be a mistake, for two reasons.
Usually malevolent, a nix can easily be propitiated with gifts.
Of course, you have to know about the monitoring of your data to nix the idea.
Jordan stretches to the sea; the West Bank and Gaza stand out boldly; but as for the sovereign state recognised in 1948: zilch; nada; nix; diddly-squat.
