The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 plus 3 plus 4 letter word GET THE CHOP
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result GET THE CHOP
- Instruction to butcher to be dismissed
- To be summarily dismissed, you might do this at the butcher’s counter
- Be sacked — and guillotined?
- Do this at the butcher’s and lose your job!
- Go for meal and suffer the worst?
- Lose job yet bring home the bacon?
- Lose job in area away from cheap ghetto in trouble
- Receive dismissal as a loser in karate?
- Message for someone in butcher’s to be fired?
- To be summarily dismissed, you might do this at the butcher's counter
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The straight part
We know that "Go for meal/suffer the worst" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case go for meal/suffer the worst = get the chop.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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