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Definition of hatchet man noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

hatchet man

noun
 
/ˈhætʃɪt mæn/
 
/ˈhætʃɪt mæn/
(informal)
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  1. a person employed by an organization to make changes that are not popular with the other people who work there
    Word Originlate 19th cent. (originally US): figuratively, from an early use denoting a hired Chinese assassin.
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