sack
/sæk/ verb [T] UK (US fire)Definition
› HR, WORKPLACE to make someone leave their job, especially because they have done something wrong: Walters was the first of the senior staff to be sacked by the new editor. Do shareholders have the right to sack the entire board of directors? → See Note resign
(Definition of sack verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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