Skip to content

sacking

noun

  1. incident of indiscriminate taking of goods by force
  2. firing from employment
  3. cause defeat in by terminating employment or otherwise pillaging/ conquering
L327025 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

noun

  1. Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks).

    The farmer grabbed a handful of sacking and rubbed down the cow.

  2. Firing or termination of an employee.

    He followed his sacking with a good drink.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of sack