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.
リストラで多くの社員が切り捨ての対象になった。
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
小数点以下は切り捨てて整数で表示する。
Fractions after the decimal point are rounded down and displayed as integers.
この計算では端数を切り捨てにしている。
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.