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present participle of nix
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1
to be unwilling to grant
- our supervisor nixed my request to work from home, if only on a trial basis
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2
to reject by or as if by a vote
- movie audiences have effectively nixed the idea of the reviving the old-fashioned western by emphatically ignoring this latest effort
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3
to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to
- the committee nixed the additional expenditures
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“Nixing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nixing. Accessed 16 Oct. 2021.
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