1. Having lost one's job
   "The fired workers gathered to discuss their options";
   - discharged, dismissed, laid-off, pink-slipped

1. Start firing a weapon
   "The soldiers opened fire on the approaching enemy";
   - open fire
    
2. Cause to go off
   "fire a bullet"; "fire a gun";
   - discharge
    
3. Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
   "The boss fired his secretary today";
   - displace, give notice, can [N. Amer, informal], dismiss, give the axe [informal], send away, sack, force out, give the sack [informal], terminate
    
4. (cooking) bake in a kiln so as to harden
   "fire pottery"
    
5. Start or maintain a fire in
   "fire the furnace";
   - light, ignite
    
6. Become ignited
   "The furnace wouldn't fire";
   - flame up
    
7. Go off or discharge
   "The gun fired";
   - discharge, go off
    
8. Destroy by fire
   "The arsonist fired the abandoned warehouse";
   - burn, burn down
    
9. Provide as a source of energy or heat
   "Oil fires the furnace";
   - fuel
    
10. (physiology) generate an electrical impulse
    "the neurons fired fast"
     
11. Drive out or away by or as if by fire
    "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold scepticism"

See also: unemployed

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Encyclopedia: Fired