sacking
noun
[ ˈsakɪŋ ]
• an act of dismissing someone from employment.
• "the offence merited a written warning that could lead to a sacking"
• the pillaging of a town or city.
• "Edward took Caen and subjected it to a brutal sacking"
• coarse material for making sacks; sackcloth.
sack
verb
• dismiss from employment.
• "any official found to be involved would be sacked on the spot"
Similar:
dismiss,
give someone their notice,
throw out,
get rid of,
lay off,
let go,
discharge,
cashier,
make redundant,
fire,
kick out,
boot out,
give someone the sack,
give someone the boot,
give someone the bullet,
give someone the push,
show someone the door,
send packing,
give someone their cards,
give someone the elbow,
turf out,
out,
• tackle (a quarterback) behind the line of scrimmage before they can throw a pass.
• "Oregon intercepted five of his passes and sacked him five times"
• put into a sack or sacks.
• "a small part of his wheat had been sacked"
Origin:
Old English sacc, from Latin saccus ‘sack, sackcloth’, from Greek sakkos, of Semitic origin. Sense 1 of the verb dates from the mid 19th century.
sack
verb
• (chiefly in historical contexts) plunder and destroy (a captured town or building).
• "the fort was rebuilt in AD 158 and was sacked again in AD 197"
Similar:
ravage,
lay waste,
devastate,
ransack,
strip,
fleece,
plunder,
pillage,
loot,
rob,
raid,
despoil,
spoil,
reave,
depredate,
spoliate,
forage,
Origin:
mid 16th century: from French sac, in the phrase mettre à sac ‘put to sack’, on the model of Italian fare il sacco, mettere a sacco, which perhaps originally referred to filling a sack with plunder.
