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say it: sak
sack is a noun and verb meaning "a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases". It carries 13 recorded senses.
a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
an enclosed space
“the trapped miners found a pocket of air”
the quantity contained in a sack
any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter
“the sack of Rome”
the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
“The boss fired his secretary today”
“The company terminated 25% of its workers”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sack come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.