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.
Please calculate by rounding down anything after the decimal point.
The management was criticized for treating the weak as expendable.
The rule is to round this remainder down.
It was decided to cut off the unprofitable division.
Variant of 斬り捨て; very rare.