[aks] 
noun, plural ax⋅es [ak-siz] , verb, axed, ax⋅ing. [aks] noun, plural ax⋅es [ak-siz] , verb, axed, ax⋅ing.| 1. | an instrument with a bladed head on a handle or helve, used for hewing, cleaving, chopping, etc. |
| 2. | Jazz Slang. any musical instrument. |
| 3. | the ax, Informal.
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| 4. | to shape or trim with an ax. |
| 5. | to chop, split, destroy, break open, etc., with an ax: The firemen had to ax the door to reach the fire. |
| 6. | Informal. to dismiss, restrict, or destroy brutally, as if with an ax: The main office axed those in the field who didn't meet their quota. Congress axed the budget. Also, axe. |
| 7. | have an ax to grind, to have a personal or selfish motive: His interest may be sincere, but I suspect he has an ax to grind. |
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| ax 1 or axe (āks) n. pl. ax·es (āk'sĭz)
[Middle English, from Old English æx.] |
| axe (āks) n. & v. Variant of ax1. |
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Axe
The interest a person or trader shows in buying or selling a bond. A trader may have specific interest in a certain type of bond based on his or her existing positions.
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In a bond market, trader axes are matched up in order to execute a transaction.
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Axe
used in the Authorized Version of Deut. 19:5; 20:19; 1 Kings 6:7, as the translation of a Hebrew word which means "chopping." It was used for felling trees (Isa. 10:34) and hewing timber for building. It is the rendering of a different word in Judg. 9:48, 1 Sam. 13:20, 21, Ps. 74:5, which refers to its sharpness. In 2 Kings 6:5 it is the translation of a word used with reference to its being made of iron. In Isa. 44:12 the Revised Version renders by "axe" the Hebrew _maatsad_, which means a "hewing" instrument. In the Authorized Version it is rendered "tongs." It is also used in Jer. 10:3, and rendered "axe." The "battle-axe" (army of Medes and Persians) mentioned in Jer. 51:20 was probably, as noted in the margin of the Revised Version, a "maul" or heavy mace. In Ps. 74:6 the word so rendered means "feller." (See the figurative expression in Matt. 3:10; Luke 3:9.)
