Weed Meaning Find Remove People Things Needed Wanted

Meaning: to find and remove people or things that are not needed or wanted

• weed out The new Prime Minister has promised to weed out all the members of the public service who have become lazy or corrupt over the years.
  
  
• weed out One of the results of the economic slowdown was that it gave companies an excuse to weed out some of their overpaid executives.