FIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fired mean? 

• FIRED (adjective)
  The adjective FIRED has 1 sense:

1. having lost your job

  Familiarity information: FIRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having lost your job

Synonyms:

discharged; dismissed; fired; laid-off; pink-slipped

Similar:

unemployed (not engaged in a gainful occupation)

 Context examples 

This change in him was her handiwork, and she was proud of it and fired with ambition further to help him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up Wednesday after 37 years without use.

(Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years, NASA)

One of them fired a shot, the other dropped, and the murderer rushed across the garden and over the hedge.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His heart was warmed, his fancy fired, and he felt the highest respect for a lad who, before he was twenty, had gone through such bodily hardships and given such proofs of mind.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You don’t think that it might have been two shots fired almost at the same instant?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Near the top of the climb, the ChemCam instrument fired its laser at the target Elk, and took a spectral reading of its composition.

(Curiosity Rover Inspects Unusual Bedrock, NASA)

A part of its orb was at length hid, and I waved my brand; it sank, and with a loud scream I fired the straw, and heath, and bushes, which I had collected.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Several shots were fired, but such was the hurry of the marksmen that not one appears to have taken effect.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He fired, and I shrieked in despair. ‘He’s hit!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even as they looked, he lifted it to his shoulder and fired twice.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)