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SACKING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sacking mean?
• SACKING (noun)
The noun SACKING has 2 senses:
1. coarse fabric used for bags or sacks
2. the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
Familiarity information: SACKING used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coarse fabric used for bags or sacks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
bagging; sacking
Hypernyms ("sacking" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Meronyms (substance of "sacking"):
jute (a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sacking"):
burlap; gunny (coarse jute fabric)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
discharge; dismissal; dismission; firing; liberation; release; sack; sacking
Hypernyms ("sacking" is a kind of...):
conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sacking"):
superannuation (the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension))
conge; congee (an abrupt and unceremonious dismissal)
removal (dismissal from office)
deactivation; inactivation (breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges))
honorable discharge (a discharge from the armed forces with a commendable record)
dishonorable discharge (a discharge from the armed forces for a grave offense (as sabotage or espionage or cowardice or murder))
Section Eight (a discharge from the US Army based on unfitness or character traits deemed undesirable)
Derivation:
sack (terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position)
Context examples
It was when I served under Sir Robert Knolles, before the days of the Company; and we came by good plunder at the sacking of it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had it at the sacking of Issodun, and the King himself hath not such a bed.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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