let sb go
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› to allow someone to be free: He pleaded with them to let him go. › to make someone leave their job: The firm hired the staff to sell the stocks, then let most of them go only a few months after the crash.
(Definition of let sb go from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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