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