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Noun sacking has 2 senses
- sacking, bagging - coarse fabric used for bags or sacks
--1 is a kind of fabric, cloth, material, textile
--1 has substances: jute
--1 has particulars: burlap, gunny
- dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking - the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
--2 is a kind of termination, ending, conclusion
--2 has particulars:
Verb sack has 4 senses
- sack, plunder - plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome"
--1 is one way to take
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate - terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
--2 is one way to remove
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
- net, sack, sack up, clear - make as a net profit; "The company cleared $1 million"
--3 is one way to profit, gain, benefit
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- sack - put in a sack; "The grocer sacked the onions"
--4 is one way to encase, incase, case
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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