GIVE NOTICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does give notice mean? 

• GIVE NOTICE (verb)
  The verb GIVE NOTICE has 2 senses:

1. terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

2. inform (somebody) of something

  Familiarity information: GIVE NOTICE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIVE NOTICE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

can; dismiss; displace; fire; force out; give notice; give the axe; give the sack; sack; send away; terminate

Context example:

The company terminated 25% of its workers

Hypernyms (to "give notice" is one way to...):

remove (remove from a position or an office)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give notice"):

retire (make (someone) retire)

pension off (let go from employment with an attractive pension)

clean out (force out)

furlough; lay off (dismiss, usually for economic reasons)

squeeze out (force out)

dismiss; drop; send away; send packing (stop associating with)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sense 2

Meaning:

Inform (somebody) of something

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

advise; apprise; apprize; give notice; notify; send word

Context example:

I advised him that the rent was due

Hypernyms (to "give notice" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

Well, if you do not think it too late to give notice for yourself, suppose you were to go, as well as your husband.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I was to see that the doors were open and the signal of a green or white light in a window which faced the drive was to give notice if all was safe or if the attempt had better be postponed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I myself heard him give directions, that one of his pages should be whipped, whose turn it was to give notice about washing the floor after an execution, but maliciously had omitted it; by which neglect a young lord of great hopes, coming to an audience, was unfortunately poisoned, although the king at that time had no design against his life.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The appearance of the servants looking out for them to give notice of the carriages was a joyful sight; and even the bustle of collecting and preparing to depart, and the solicitude of Mrs. Elton to have her carriage first, were gladly endured, in the prospect of the quiet drive home which was to close the very questionable enjoyments of this day of pleasure.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The morning hours of the Cottage were always later than those of the other house, and on the morrow the difference was so great that Mary and Anne were not more than beginning breakfast when Charles came in to say that they were just setting off, that he was come for his dogs, that his sisters were following with Captain Wentworth; his sisters meaning to visit Mary and the child, and Captain Wentworth proposing also to wait on her for a few minutes if not inconvenient; and though Charles had answered for the child's being in no such state as could make it inconvenient, Captain Wentworth would not be satisfied without his running on to give notice.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

My master alighted at an inn which he used to frequent; and after consulting awhile with the inn-keeper, and making some necessary preparations, he hired the grultrud, or crier, to give notice through the town of a strange creature to be seen at the sign of the Green Eagle, not so big as a splacnuck (an animal in that country very finely shaped, about six feet long,) and in every part of the body resembling a human creature, could speak several words, and perform a hundred diverting tricks.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)