Question of the Day #1130

Teachers being handed pink slips as summer arrives

From the headline of this article at WBRC.com.

  上記の文で、pink slipの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "pink slip" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

〈米〉解雇通知

   

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

a notice from an employer that a recipient's employment is being terminated

 

Examples

1. Management started issuing pink slips yesterday.
2. The sales department has been told to pink-slip 20% of its staff.
3. The end of August means that the hot seat/pink slip watch is alive and well down in the Plains. — Scooby Axson, SI.com, 29 Aug. 2019
4. Don’t wait until you’re called in and handed your pink slip. — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2023
5. That's what was going on in the media when the president tried to give Mueller a pink slip. — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2018

   

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