sacking
About 0.41 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks).
The farmer grabbed a handful of sacking and rubbed down the cow.
- noun Firing or termination of an employee.
He followed his sacking with a good drink.
- verb present participle and gerund of sack
Similar words
bagging firing discharge release liberation dismissal gunny veering plundering looting
Often followed by
of and the or a in to by was
Word family
sackings
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