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Adjective: canned  kand
  1. Recorded for broadcast
    "canned laughter";
    - transcribed
     
  2. Sealed in a can or jar
    "canned foods are not very tasty";
    - tinned
Verb: can (canned,canning)  kan
  1. (cooking) preserve in a can or tin
    "canned foods are not very tasty";
    - tin, put up
     
  2. [N. Amer, informal] Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
    "The boss canned his secretary today";
    - displace, fire, give notice, dismiss, give the axe [informal], send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate

See also: preserved, put, recorded

Type of: keep, preserve, remove

Encyclopedia: Canned

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