sacking

Letting someone go

Sacking is coarse woven fabric, typically made from jute or hemp, used for bags and wrapping: The potatoes came in sacking.

In British English, sacking also means dismissal from employment: He got his sacking notice on Friday.

The word derives from sack in both senses—the bag and the act of firing someone.

plunder

looting

Theft during disorder

pillageViolent theft of goods
raidSudden armed incursion
ransackPlunder while destroying

plunder · spoils · booty · maraud · depredation · conquest · invasion · siege · occupation · razed

fabric

burlap

Coarse woven fiber

hessianCoarse woven jute cloth
gunnyCoarse jute fabric
jutePlant fiber for sacking

canvas · bagging · ticking · duck · twill · coarse · woven · rough · fibrous · textile

dismissal

firing

Terminating employment

layoffTermination without cause
terminationAct of ending something
redundancyNeedless duplication

discharge · pink slip · axing · downsizing · ouster · severance · retrenchment · unemployment · joblessness · expulsion

Categories

footballfootball, touchdown, field goal, quarterback, end zone
plunderlooting, loot, booty, pillaging, spoils
expulsionsejection, ousting, expelling, forcing out, eviction
Warfare Customswar cry, battle cry, war drums, war drum, war chant
hangihot stones, pit, earth oven, steam, pit oven
disastersdisaster, earthquake, earthquakes, catastrophe, floods

Opposites

employment status change

sackinghiring

Giving someone work

employing · recruiting · taking on · onboarding · engaging

career trajectory

sackingpromotion

Rank increase or publicity

advancement · elevation · rewarding · tenure · upgrading

destruction vs. construction

sackingconstruction

Process of building something

building · founding · establishing · rebuilding · restoration

Phrases

sacking outFalling asleep casually

Family

Familiarity: Top 200,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G