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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 sacksplay

2. the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)play

  Familiarity information: SACKING used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SACKING (noun)


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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