select out
verb1
US, Euphemistic To fire (an employee).
- During the past week employees of grade 13 and above in the Agency for International Development, which is seeking legislation to "select out" employees without regard to civil service laws, received invitations.1967, United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary, Privacy and the Rights of Federal Employees: Hearings:
- Employees are, of course, never fired. They are selected out, placed out, non-retained, released, dehired, non-renewed.1991, Elvio Angeloni, Annual Editions: Anthropology, 91-92, page 44: