N-COUNT 刀斧手，刽子手（指机构内执行大量裁员任务的人） You can refer to someone who makes changes in an organization by getting rid of lots of people as a hatchet man, especially if you think they do so in an unnecessarily harsh way. 刀斧手，刽子手（指机构内执行大量裁员任务的人） [informal, disapproval]
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They reckoned he was a hatchet man, out to shred the workforce and crush the union.
他们估计他是上司派来的刽子手，专门对工人大开杀戒，大肆镇压工会。
SYN hit man, heavy [slang] , killer, gunman