slash-and-burn
adjective
- of or having to do with a type of primitive forest agriculture in which fields are cleared by cutting down and burning vegetation
- extremely destructive in an indiscriminate way
See slash-and-burn in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(slăshˈənd-bûrnˈ)
adjective- Of or being a form of agriculture in which an area of forest is cleared by cutting and burning and is then planted, usually for several seasons, before being left to return to forest.
- Drastic or destructive: “The past few years of painful, slash-and-burn expense cutting have made top brokerage executives reluctant to revert to their former, profligate ways” (David Henry).
