sack out

sack | Business English

sack
noun
uk /sæk/us
[ C ]
a large bag made of strong cloth, paper, or plastic, used to store large amounts of something:
The corn was stored in large sacks.
a sack of sthThe men carry 100-pound sacks of coffee on their backs.
[ C ]US
a strong paper or plastic bag used to carry things bought in a food store:
a sack of groceries
 the sack[ S ]UK
HR, WORKPLACE
a situation in which you are told by your employer that you must leave your job, especially because you have done something wrong:
get the sackIf I don't do the job right, I'll get the sack.
give sb the sackHer repeated unexplained absences led her manager to give her the sack.
face the sack
earn sb the sackThe company's poor sales figures finally earned Miller the sack.
sack
verb[ T ]
UKuk /sæk/us(USfire)
HR, WORKPLACE
to make someone leave their job, especially because they have done something wrong:
Walters was the first of the senior staff to be sacked by the new editor.
Do shareholders have the right to sack the entire board of directors?

Examples of sack

sack
Freelancers could not be sacked, made redundant or forced to take early or ' normal ' retirement.
Clergymen were rarely sacked from the commissions, but when they died or moved many were not replaced and numbers dwindled.
Sand from a depth of approximately 5 cm of the sandpit was placed in polythene sacks and taken to the laboratory for analysis.
The cabinets had a slotted floor and slurry was removed through a tube connected to a plastic sack.
Not finding the bishop home either, they vented their fury in sacking the house, culminating with throwing the archiepiscopal throne from the balcony.
Once again, controversy focused on the stool's finances, and the commissioners were faced with a choice between suppressing dissent and sacking the chief.
Men were kept busy with tasks such as shovelling coal into sacks, for bunkering the catchers more easily.
The economy was probably based on a combination of livestock keeping, some cultivation and sacking the countryside, as was common in this period.
These bands of sacking were found to contain very large numbers of larvae.
She collects all crop residues from her maize and stores cowpea leaves in sacks.
A tiny boy, helping his family, carries a sack of coal he has gathered somewhere.
During the third year drip irrigation had been completely abandoned and only three farmers still used the mobile sack.
The pointing is not raked or trowelled as usual but 'bagged off', crudely wiped with an old sack, causing the bricks to be smeared.
From then on, most of the oficinas closed down, becoming a collection of ruins, abandoned and sacked, in the midst of the desert.
The feeding artery was extremely distended and tortuous, being connected to a large sack-like malformation.
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