pink slip
noun
: a notice from an employer that a recipient's employment is being terminated
pink-slip
transitive verb
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One of the most jarring contradictions in today’s workplace is the disconnect between record profits and endless pink slips.
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Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
More than 130 Hartford Public Schools staff members, including some teachers, are facing pink slips at the end of the school year if the district can’t find a way to close the nearly $7 million budget gap, a task that advocates say is impossible without additional funding from the city.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2025
Thousands of workers, specialists and scientists were handed DOGE pink slips Tuesday morning.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
But such a bold move could very well lead to Johnson getting a pink slip from his caucus, as his Speakership barely happened, and only then with Trump’s intervention.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
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Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
More than 130 Hartford Public Schools staff members, including some teachers, are facing pink slips at the end of the school year if the district can’t find a way to close the nearly $7 million budget gap, a task that advocates say is impossible without additional funding from the city.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2025
Thousands of workers, specialists and scientists were handed DOGE pink slips Tuesday morning.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
But such a bold move could very well lead to Johnson getting a pink slip from his caucus, as his Speakership barely happened, and only then with Trump’s intervention.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
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“Pink slip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pink%20slip. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
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