chopping block Definition

axed, cuts, cutbacks, layoffs, jeopardy, furloughing, eliminated, hiring freeze, budget, kibosh, elimination, shuttering, funding, unfilled, biennium, lopped, slashed, crosshairs, scrapheap, imperiled, downsized, cross hairs, trimming, reassigned, earmarked, burner, electives, appropriations, reductions, dire straits, chop, wage freeze, spared, excessed, sacred cow, unfunded, fate, extracurricular, unobligated, vetoes, scrimping, teetering, goners, totem pole, gutting, pink slip, whack, endangered, unbudgeted, closure, redundancies, verge, millage, underbudgeted, shortfall, closings, mothball, pare, purview, reapportioned, cocurricular, rehire, skimping, zeroing, extinction, proration, porked, shutdown, reassigning, brink, capital outlay, blackballed, guillotine, limbo, school board, taxpayers, cagit, payroll, reallocate, reshuffling, rehires, unessential, boneyard, crunch, saving grace, jobs, warpath, bussing, nixed, excessing, foundering, lockdown, hanging, zeroed, priorities, underfunded, decimate, finalists, jeopardized, death knell,