select out

select out (third-person singular simple present selects out, present participle selecting out, simple past and past participle selected out)

(US, transitive, euphemistic) To fire (an employee).
- 1967, United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary, Privacy and the Rights of Federal Employees: Hearings:
  During the past week employees of grade 13 and above in the Agency for International Development, which is seeking legislation to "select out" employees without regard to civil service laws, received invitations.
- 1991, Elvio Angeloni, Annual Editions: Anthropology, 91-92, page 44:
  Employees are, of course, never fired. They are selected out, placed out, non-retained, released, dehired, non-renewed.

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