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• s  having lost your job

• Your friend in finance got pink-slipped.
• But in 1994 she pink-slipped Neeleman after Southwest bought Morris Air, another low-price airline he had started.
• The business outlook took a dip at the turn of the millennium, and the buzz became, "You've got pink-slipped!" But as the MBAs struggle through growing pains, regular folks flock .

• discharged
• dismissed
• fired
• laid-off

Quotes

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• Harry Reid in FOXNews
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters: "The only way [civil service workers] would be pink-slipped is because of the meanness of the White House."