Definition

1. Noun:
   • The termination of someone's employment (le.g., dismissal, firing): The act of removing someone from their job.
   • Coarse fabric used for bags or sacks: A strong, rough-woven material, typically made from jute or hemp, used for making sacks.

Usage and Examples

• Noun (Dismissal):
  • The sacking of the manager was announced yesterday.
  • His sacking came as a shock to the entire team.
• Noun (Fabric):
  • The farmer used sacking to store the grain.
  • The old chair was reupholstered with durable sacking.

Advanced Usage

• "To be given/get the sack": An informal idiom meaning to be dismissed from one's job.
  • He was given the sack for repeated lateness.
• "To sack someone": The verb form meaning to dismiss someone from employment.
  • The company decided to sack the underperforming employee.

Variants and Related Words

• Sack (noun): A large bag made of strong material; also informal for dismissal (e.g., ).
• Sack (verb): To dismiss from employment; to plunder or loot a place.
• Sackful (noun): The amount a sack holds.
• Sackcloth (noun): A coarse fabric similar to sacking, often associated with mourning or penitence.

Synonyms

• For dismissal: Dismissal, firing, termination, discharge, layoff.
• For fabric: Burlap, hessian, gunny (cloth).

Phrasal Verbs

• Sack out (verb): An informal phrasal verb meaning to go to sleep or lie down to rest.
  • After the long hike, I just want to sack out on the sofa.

Related Idioms

• "Hit the sack": To go to bed.
  • It's late; I'm going to hit the sack.
• "Sack race": A race in which competitors hop with their legs inside a sack.
  • The children enjoyed the sack race at the school fair.

Noun

1. the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
2. coarse fabric used for bags or sacks