a hatchet man

(informal)

someone who is employed by an organization to make changes that people do not like The hatchet man is called in whenever a company needs to reduce its staff.

See bury the hatchet

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Zelma	ZEL-mə	English
Fatimah	fah-TIM-ah (Arabic)	Arabic, Malay, Indonesian
Villem	-	Estonian
Doncho	-	Bulgarian, Macedonian
GusztÁV	-	Hungarian
Isolda	i-ZOL-də (English), i-SOL-də (English)	Arthurian Romance