Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.
1To some give the sack, and to others a warning;
2Then Robin Hood gave the sack of silver back to the Sheriff.
3Giving the sack is a felicity granted only to a few people.
4The Knowledge archive Christmas Special: given the sack on 25 December?
5In fact, I've been given the sack by all of them.
6He gave the sack an experimental kick with his foot.
7The list of successful coaches to have been given the sack, notwithstanding a recent winning record.
8'For a lampshade like that a cleaning woman would have been given the sack,' he says.
9LAYOFFS 101 Business is brisk for Drake Beam Morin, an HR firm that advises managers on the fine art of giving the sack.
10With manager Martin Lawlor being given the sack in midweek, Longford could have been excused for low-key approach to this opening game of the season.
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