noun
official notice that you have been fired from your job
• Syn: ↑dismissal, ↑dismission
• Hypernyms: ↑notice
• Hyponyms: ↑walking papers, ↑marching orders
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a letter given to sb to say that they must leave their job
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About 40% of the department's 78 engineers received pink slips.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.