Bad luck, your job is being demised. Let's hope HSBC used this absurd euphemism only in its baffling press release, and not in its formal letter to 3,166 employees warning them that they are at risk of redundancy.
"Courageous integrity," is what HSBC chief executive Stuart Gulliver says he wants his staff to display.
We'd settle for an ability to acknowledge a job cut in plain English.
