give the sack

Questions about give the sack

What is another word for give the sack?

It depends which give the sack you mean. In the sense “terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position”, the synonyms are displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, terminate. Across all 1 sense there are 10 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of give the sack?

WordNet records no antonym for give the sack. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for give the sack come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of give the sack

• Full entry for give the sackAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for give the sackWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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