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1. A bag made of paper or plastic for holding a customer's purchases
   - poke, paper bag, carrier bag [Brit]
    
2. An enclosed space
   "the trapped miners found a sack of air";
   - pouch, sac, pocket
    
3. The quantity contained in a sack
   - sackful
    
4. Any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
    
5. A woman's full loose hiplength jacket
   - sacque
    
6. A hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
   - hammock
    
7. A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
   - chemise, shift
    
8. The plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter
   "the sack of Rome"
    
9. The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
   - dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sacking, heave-ho [informal], chuck [Brit, informal], the axe [informal], severance, the boot [informal], the chop [Brit, informal]

1. Plunder (a town) after capture
   "the barbarians sacked Rome";
   - plunder
    
2. Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
   "The boss sacked his secretary today";
   - displace, fire, give notice, can [N. Amer, informal], dismiss, give the axe [informal], send away, force out, give the sack, terminate
    
3. Make as a net profit
   "The company sacked $1 million";
   - net, sack up, clear
    
4. Put in a sack
   "The grocer sacked the onions"

Sounds like: sachets, sa, sa

Derived forms: sacking, sacked, sacks

Type of: bag, bed, benefit, case, cavity, conclusion, containerful, dress, encase, enclosed space, ending, frock, gain, incase, jacket, pillage, pillaging, plundering, profit, remove, take, termination, white wine

Encyclopedia: Sack, Robert