1. Coarse fabric used for bags or sacks
   "They used sturdy sacking to transport the grain";
   - bagging
    
2. The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
   "His sudden sacking came as a shock to the department";
   - dismissal, dismission [rare], discharge, firing, release, sack, severance, heave-ho [informal], the axe [informal], the boot [informal], the chop [Brit, informal], chuck [Brit, informal], termination [N. Amer]

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

Derived forms: sackings

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

Encyclopedia: Sacking