terminate with extreme prejudice

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To murder; to assassinate. US,euphemistic
    — 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.

词形变化

terminates with extreme prejudice present,singular,third-person terminating with extreme prejudice participle,present terminated with extreme prejudice participle,past terminated with extreme prejudice past

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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