sacking

Pluralsackings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of sack. Use it after "is" or "are," or to talk about doing the action.

   The company is sacking fifty workers next month.

   The farmers were sacking the grain all afternoon.

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   When an employer tells a worker that they no longer have a job.

   Her sacking made the news because she had worked there for thirty years.

   After a wave of sackings, only ten people were left in the office.

   Similardismissal, firing

3. 3
   noununcountable

   Cheap, rough cloth like the kind used to make big bags.

   We put old sacking over the plants on the cold night.

   The dog slept on a bed of sacking in the barn.

   Similarburlap, hessian, sackcloth

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