切り捨て
Meanings
cutting down; sacrificing; throwing to the wolves
Figurative use: treating people as expendable, discarding them without hesitation. Often used in business or organizational contexts.
Employees in unprofitable divisions were simply thrown to the wolves.
Many employees became targets of cutting down in the restructuring.
omission; rounding down; truncation
Used in calculation or data handling: dropping fractional parts or less significant digits. Contrasts with 切り上げ (rounding up).
See also: 切り上げ
Fractions after the decimal point are rounded down and displayed as integers.
In this calculation, fractions are truncated.
Usage patterns
- 〈数〉の切り捨てrounding down of 〈a number〉
Please calculate by rounding down anything after the decimal point.
- 〈人〉の切り捨てthe discarding/sacrificing of 〈someone〉
The management was criticized for treating the weak as expendable.
- 〈物〉を切り捨てにするto round something down (in a calculation)
The rule is to round this remainder down.
- 〈事〉の切り捨てを行うto carry out the cutting/elimination of 〈something〉
It was decided to cut off the unprofitable division.
Expressions
- 切り捨てられるcan be discarded; can be cut down