首切り – vocab dash

首くび切きり

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Meanings

Noun

1. decapitation; beheading

2. firings; dismissals; layoffs; downsizing

3. small samurai sword used for decapitation

Other spellings

首くび斬きり

Kanji used

首neck 切cut

Kanji in other spellings

斬slice to kill

Pitch accent

くびきり

Composed of

首くび

neck; head; dismissal (from a job); firing; sacking

Noun

切きり

end; finish; place to stop; bound; limit; finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki); final performance of the day (in vaudeville); trump card; king (court card; in mekuri karuta and unsun karuta); …

Noun

Used in vocabulary

首くび切きり台だい

executioner's block

Noun

首くび切きり役やく人にん

executioner; headsman

Noun

Examples2

オーナーたちは組くみ合あいのシンパを一人ひとり残のこらず解かい雇こするために首くび切きり役やくを投とう入にゅうした。

The owners brought in a hatchet man to fire all the union sympathizers.

低てい賃ちん金ぎん、劣れつ悪あくな労ろう働どう条じょう件けん、一いっ方ぽう的てきな首くび切きりなどの経けい済ざい・労ろう働どう問もん題だいはもとより、各かく種しゅの人じん道どう的てき問もん題だいまでも引ひき起おこしている。

Of course, they are suffering from terrible working conditions such as low wages and arbitrary layoffs, as well as from various forms of discrimination.