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
Laurits	-	Danish, Norwegian
Aelfric	['ælfrik]
Jolanta	yaw-LAHN-tah (Polish)	Polish, Lithuanian
Angel	AYN-jəl (English)	English, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Jason	['dʒeisn]
Amaterasu	-	Far Eastern Mythology