terminate with extreme prejudice

短语

词形变化

terminated with extreme prejudice terminates with extreme prejudice 三单 terminates with extreme prejudice terminating with extreme prejudice terminating with extreme prejudice 现在分词 terminated with extreme prejudice 过去式 terminated with extreme prejudice 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To murder; to assassinate.

    美国 委婉

    The government ordered the spies to be terminated with extreme prejudice: they did not want them to expose what they knew in a public trial.

词源

First appears c. 1969. Derives from US military intelligence and CIA documents, in news coverage of the Green Beret Case, and further popularized in the movie Apocalypse Now (1979). A play on the term terminate with prejudice when an employee’s employment is terminated, meaning will not rehire employee to same position in future (i.e., prejudiced against rehiring), hence terminate definitively, i.e., kill.

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