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1. Coarse fabric used for bags or sacks
   - bagging
    
2. The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
   - dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, 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"

Derived forms: sackings

Type of: benefit, case, cloth, conclusion, encase, ending, fabric, gain, incase, material, profit, remove, take, termination, textile

Encyclopedia: Sacking