give notice

Questions about give notice

What does give notice mean?

give notice means "terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for give notice?

Close synonyms include displace, fire, can, dismiss, give the axe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is give notice a common word?

give notice is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.