give the sack

Questions about give the sack

What does give the sack mean?

give the sack means "terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position".

What is another word for give the sack?

Close synonyms include displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss. 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 the sack a common word?

give the sack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.