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Definition of Give the sack
1. Verb. Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position. "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
Specialized synonyms: Retire, Pension Off, Clean Out, Furlough, Lay Off, Squeeze Out, Dismiss, Drop, Send Away, Send Packing
Generic synonyms: Remove
Derivative terms: Dismissal, Dismissible, Dismission, Firing, Sack, Sacking
Antonyms: Hire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Give The Sack
Literary usage of Give the sack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"Eg, "the ACK (common), to give the sack, to dismiss, discharge from one's ...
"To give the sack" is so widely used as to be almost a recognised phrase. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1864)
"Nor are they going to be, Mr. Burton; thank you for your kind intentions all the
same. Come, sack us, will you? Take and give the sack to the whole three on ..."
3. Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs by Arthur Benoni Evans (1881)
"6., iq Reckling, qv Sack, sb. and va, phr. to 'sack,' or 'give the sack,' is to
discharge, and to 'get the sack' to be discharged from any function, ..."
4. Dansk-norsk-engelsk Ordbog by Johannes Magnussen (1902)
"... give the sack; tage sin — retire [from office], resign [one's office], leave
service, forlange sin — tender el. give in one's resignation; han har faaet ..."
5. A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester by John Drummond Robertson (1890)
"iq Reckling, qv Sack, sb. and va,phr. to 'sack,' or 'give the sack,' is to
discharge, and to 'get the sack' to be discharged from any function, office, ..."
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