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slash — [slæʆ] verb [transitive] JOURNALISM to greatly reduce an amount, price etc: • Over the last year the workforce has been slashed by 50%. • At least $400 million may be slashed from an annual budget of $2.4 billion. * * * Ⅰ. slash UK US /slæʃ/ verb … Financial and business terms
slash — slash1 [slash] vt. [ME slaschen < ? OFr esclachier, to break, prob. < es (< L ex ), intens. + Gmc * klakjan, to crack, of echoic orig.] 1. to cut or wound with a sweeping stroke or strokes, as of a knife 2. to whip viciously; lash;… … English World dictionary
slash — [[t]slæ̱ʃ[/t]] slashes, slashing, slashed 1) VERB If you slash something, you make a long, deep cut in it. [V n] He came within two minutes of bleeding to death after slashing his wrists. N COUNT Slash is also a noun. Make deep slashes in the… … English dictionary
Slash (punctuation) — / Slash Punctuation apostrophe ( ’ … Wikipedia
slash — {{11}}slash (n.) a cutting stroke with a weapon, 1570s, from SLASH (Cf. slash) (v.); sense of slit in a garment is from 1610s; that of open tract in a forest is first attested 1825, Amer.Eng. As a punctuation mark in writing or printing, it is… … Etymology dictionary
slash — slash1 /slash/, v.t. 1. to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword. 2. to lash; whip. 3. to cut, reduce, or alter: The editors slashed the story to half its length. 4. to make slits in… … Universalium
slash — 01. The victim was [slashed] on the arm with a knife when he tried to fight off his attacker. 02. We have [slashed] prices by up to 50% for our yearly sale. 03. The young boy who was found by police was almost dead, after having [slashed] his… … Grammatical examples in English
slash — I [[t]slæʃ[/t]] v. t. 1) to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword 2) to lash; whip 3) to cut, reduce, or alter: to slash salaries[/ex] 4) clo to make slits in (a garment) to show an… … From formal English to slang
slash — Synonyms and related words: Vandyke, abbreviate, abrade, abrasion, abridge, amputate, assail, attack, ax, band, bar, bark, beat, beat down, bend, bias, bisect, blaze, blemish, blister, bloody, breach, break, breakage, burn, burr, burst, butcher,… … Moby Thesaurus
slash — 1. verb 1) her tires had been slashed Syn: cut (open), gash, slit, split open, lacerate, knife, make an incision in 2) informal the company slashed prices Syn: reduce, cut, lower, bring dow … Thesaurus of popular words
