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
Alojzy	ah-LOI-zi	Polish
Lowell	LO-əl	English
Gobnata	-	History
Nazzareno	-	Italian
Valentin	VAH-len-teen (German), vah-lyen-TEEN (Russian), vah-leen-TEEN (Russian)	French, Romanian, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech, Russian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian,
Amina	-	Bosnian, Arabic