sacking
sa king
- n coarse fabric used for bags or sacks
- n the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- v plunder (a town) after capture
- v terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- v make as a net profit
- v put in a sack
- He imposed a state of emergency last November, suspending the constitution and sacking the judiciary.
- It is sacking a quarter of its 1,600 staff and selling off assets like Spanish wind farms and a Tasmanian power station.
- PTI talked to White about sacking (aka firing) the losers, collaborative cooking, and the inherent romance of food.