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sacking en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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. (countable) Firing or termination of an employee.
    • He followed his sacking with a good drink.

Forms

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sackings Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

hopsacking

Translations (5)

cs vyhazov (firing of an employee) · cs pytlovina (rough cloth) · uk мішкови́на (rough cloth) · cs propuštění (firing of an employee) · cs vyhození (firing of an employee)

sacking en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of sack
    form of sack