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  • noun A professional killer or gunman.
  • noun An employee or contractor whose role is to terminate or fire other employees.

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Examples

  • Guiliani's attempted transformation into a right-wing hatchetman is just bizarre.

    Giuliani backs Rubio, rips into Obama 2010

  • The flick stars George Clooney as Ryan Bingham, a corporate hatchetman who spends the larger portion of his days in flight, constantly moving from place to place in the execution of his work.

    In The Studio For ‘Up In The Air’ In Today’s Daily TwitPic » MTV Movies Blog 2009

  • Either way, subpoenas need to be delivered to the hatchetman-in-chief, Karl Rove, as well as to members of his crew, to gather their sworn public testimony on the matter.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • -- GOP hatchetman Rick Wilson, who did the 2002 Cleland-Osama morph ads, talking about what the GOP will do with Obama-Wright connection

    CBS Poll Has Mostly Good News For Obama On Race Speech 2009

  • Either way, subpoenas need to be delivered to the hatchetman-in-chief, Karl Rove, as well as to members of his crew, to gather their sworn public testimony on the matter.

    Easter Lemming Liberal News 2007

  • -- GOP hatchetman Rick Wilson, who did the 2002 Cleland-Osama morph ads, talking about what the GOP will do with Obama-Wright connection,

    MSNBC Reporter: Obama Campaign Didn't Push Story That Hillary Was Behind Passport Files Breach 2009

  • He'd be perfect for playing the VP's candidates traditional hatchetman role, he'd provide the wise grey hair that both would need on the ticket and he'd provides regional balance for their tickets.

    Election Central Debate Roundup 2009

  • And, just to make sure the U.S. is caught up in the regime's anti-foreign tirade, Ahmadenijad's political hatchetman, Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi fired a preemptive shot at Washington warning President Obama that any further statements on his part will irrevocably impair any hope for a serious dialogue -- as if Ahmadenijad was going to listen to reason in the first place.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Supreme Leader to Demonstrators: "Drop Dead!" 2009

  • Another shadow government figure who would later become instrumental in the transformation of America into the fascistic Homeland is one David Addington, Cheney's crackerjack legal mind and longtime hatchetman who has along with others such as John Yoo (a man who once said that the president had the legal authority to crush a child's testicles were it deemed necessary) have toiled to change the law of the nation into something dark and foreign.

    US Govt Spy Program: Main Core, PROMIS and the Shadow Government (Pt.2) 2009

  • Bush and his hatchetman, Karl Rove, have gotten away with it because they are seen as members of the "conservative" tribe.

    A Game Plan for Voting in a Deep Red State 2008

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