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Verb: give the sack
  1. Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
    - displace, fire, give notice, can [N. Amer, informal], dismiss, give the axe [informal], send away, sack, force out, terminate

Derived forms: given the sack, giving the sack, gave the sack, gives the sack

See also: send

Type of: remove