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- adjective having lost your job
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Examples
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They were simply pink-slipped by corporate employers whose duty was to profit at any cost.
Adrienne Parks: Bullying Part Deux: Occupy Wall Street and the Gay Movement Adrienne Parks 2011
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In June of this year, he pink-slipped all of the fine-art teachers and a third of the music teachers.
Dora Taylor: So who will Take Over D.C. Schools now that Rhee is out? Dora Taylor 2010
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All HHS did was suspend Class policy planning, told Senate Democrats to zero out Class funding for 2012, reassigned Class's career staffers to other projects and pink-slipped the program's chief actuary.
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They were simply pink-slipped by corporate employers whose duty was to profit at any cost.
Adrienne Parks: Bullying Part Deux: Occupy Wall Street and the Gay Movement Adrienne Parks 2011
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They were simply pink-slipped by corporate employers whose duty was to profit at any cost.
Adrienne Parks: Bullying Part Deux: Occupy Wall Street and the Gay Movement Adrienne Parks 2011
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At this point in the economic cycle, they are piling up like used tires: debt-sacked college kids who can't get jobs, foreclosed homeowners, failed small-business owners, pink-slipped employees, millions suddenly ejected from the middle class and now a couple Republican candidates who won't be our next president.
Occupy Mitt Romney! Al Lewis 2012
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The Portland building permit bureau -- whatever Orwellian name it goes by these days -- is broker than broke, and that means it may have to lay off even more employees than it's already pink-slipped.
Eat what you kill -- but at City Hall? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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On his cryptic "I was worried I was going to get pink-slipped" remark:I came out of school, and I got an entry level position like the other people that were freshly minted MBAs, and like anybody that starts at the bottom of an enterprise you wonder, when you don't do so well, whether you're going to be able to hang onto your job.
New Hampshire primary - live: Mitt Romney fends off attacks 2012
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The Portland building permit bureau -- whatever Orwellian name it goes by these days -- is broker than broke, and that means it may have to lay off even more employees than it's already pink-slipped.
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They were simply pink-slipped by corporate employers whose duty was to profit at any cost.
Adrienne Parks: Bullying Part Deux: Occupy Wall Street and the Gay Movement Adrienne Parks 2011
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"to pink-slip" - to notify employees that they are beling laid off.
"The recession is forcing Maryland ... to slash $300 million from the state budget, a move that ... has public workers around the region worried about being pink-slipped." (Washington Examiner, p.4, 7/20/2009)
August 2, 2009