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Meanings of pink-slipped in English

Having lost your job.

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        Electric power projects include nuclear power plants, gas-fired power plants and others.
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        After 15 days' absence from work, his boss fired him, he said.
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        The officers fired their weapons, seriously wounding McGowan, law enforcement authorities said.
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        Shots were fired into a house in Northern Ireland tonight, police said.
        The Irish Times
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        ATCO Power already operates a gas fired power station in the region.
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        The case was dismissed without prejudice the following year, NBC News reported.
        News.com.au
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        DuPont plans this year to ask for the case to be dismissed.
        Reuters
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        The government has dismissed the criticism, promising a free and fair vote.
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        Israel dismissed reports of its responsibility and said it respected Egypt's sovereignty.
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        A court dismissed the case last year, a decision Viacom is appealing.
        Wired
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        Postoperative course was uneventful and the patient was discharged within 5 days.
        Pubmed
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        For example, look at the issue of someone being discharged from hospital.
        The Guardian
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        Their canteen had been stopped; the day nursery discontinued; the nurses discharged.
        Mary Minds Her Business
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        The judgment was in favor of the negroes and they were discharged.
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        After receiving treatment, she was eventually given the all clear and discharged.
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        He's also proposed a new unemployment insurance program to retrain laid-off workers.
        Wired
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        I might as well do something, said laid-off dental assistant Sara Chin.
        Reuters
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        Getting laid-off is perhaps the most professionally traumatic experience you'll ever have.
        The Irish Times
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        Students are deepening ties with laid-off and locked-out workers across the province.
        The Guardian
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        Some 80 workers in Galway are already laid-off because of the blaze.
        The Irish Times
        Usage of pink-slipped in English
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        The guy who was hired right after me got pink-slipped.
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        The pink-slipped staffers comprise about 25 percent of Oxygen's roughly 260 employees.
        Reuters
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        Maintaining this facade will be more difficult going forward as 300 newly pink-slipped auditors turn a drip of leaks into a stream.
        Reuters