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切り捨て きりすて

  1. cutting a person down (without a second thought); sacrificing; throwing to the wolves; treating as sword fodder
  2. omission; rounding down (e.g. fractions); truncation

切り捨てる きりすてる

  1. to cut off and throw away
  2. to abandon; to discard; to disregard; to throw to the wolves
  3. to discard (numbers after a certain decimal place); to drop; to ignore; to omit; to round down
  4. to cut (someone) down; to slay

切り捨てられる きりすてられる

  1. can be cut down; can be discarded

切り捨て御免 きりすてごめん

  1. right of samurai to kill commoners for perceived affronts (Edo period)
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