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Bloodletter

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blood·let·ting  (bldltng)
n.
1. Bloodshed.
2. The removal of blood, usually from a vein, as a therapeutic measure.
3. The laying off of personnel or the elimination of resources.
bloodletter n.


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For the most part, he's been, by dictator standards, a moderate bloodletter.
The Q-man by Bloom, John / The National Interest
Thus begins Siegfried Sassoon's seething 1917 poem "The General," on the bungling bloodletters commanding the British army during World War I.
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Borg also quotes a passage citing members of trades suspected of immorality: workers in the transport trades, herdsmen, shopkeepers, physicians, butchers, goldsmiths, fiaxcombers, handmill cleaners, peddlers, weavers, barbers, launderers, bloodletters, bath attendants, and tanners.
How unclean were tax-collectors? by Maccoby, Hyam / Biblical Theology Bulletin
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