Termination of employment
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Termination of employment or separation of employment is an employee's departure from a job and the end of their time with an employer. Termination may be voluntary on the employee's part, or it may b
An early 20th-century illustration of a university faculty member being "given the boot", slang for a form of involuntary termination
Metonymy
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Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something associated with that thing or concept. For example, the word "suit" may refer to a person from groups commonly
Termination of employment
…discharge notice in an employee's pay envelope to notify the worker of their involuntary termination of employment or layoff. The "pink slip" has become a metonym for the termination of employment in general. According to an article in The New York Times, the editors of the Random House Dictionary have dated the…
The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense and is a common metonym for the US military and its leadership
The White House is the official residence of the president of the United States, and its name is a common metonym for the presidency and cabinet of the United States.
Fleet Street (where most British national newspapers previously operated) is a metonym for the British press
The Kremlin is often used as a metonym for the central governments of both the Soviet Union and modern Russia