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sack English

Meaning sack meaning

What does sack mean?
Definitions in simple English

sack Noun

— A sack is a bag used to hold things. She opened the brown paper sack and put the shopping in it. — To sack is to plunder and pillage a captured town or city. The sack of Rome. — The sack is a slang word for bed. I'm tired. I think I'll hit the sack and get some sleep.

sack Verb

— To plunder or pillage a captured town or city. The barbarians sacked Rome.

sack

— noun a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases — verb (= plunder) plunder (a town) after capture the barbarians sacked Rome — verb put in a sack The grocer sacked the onions — noun a woman's full loose hiplength jacket — noun any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry) — noun the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter the sack of Rome — noun the quantity contained in a sack — noun (= chemise) a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist — noun (= hammock) a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily — verb (= net, clear) make as a net profit The company cleared $1 million — noun (= pocket) an enclosed space the trapped miners found a pocket of air — noun (= dismissal) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) — verb (= fire, terminate) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position The boss fired his secretary today The company terminated 25% of its workers

Synonyms sack synonyms

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sack English » English

bag dismiss fire discharge plunder pillage pouch pocket purse rob ransack despoil sac ravage poke loot lay off gunny bag expel can dismissal carrier bag terminate spoil send away sackful remove pack handbag devastate container case urn tin sacking release push pot paper bag pail oust net mat-bag kick out jug jar hammock give the sack give the axe firing

Topics sack topics

What do people use sack to talk about?
Person Body

Internal organs
Person Life Birth

Fetus
Social behavior Conflict War

Plunder
Work and occupation Work Method Work poorly

Give up
Work and occupation Business organization

Work for someone
Person Body

Bone, joint
Daily life Food Food preparation Steps in food preparation

Grind flour
Daily life Food Food preparation

Food storage
Daily life Food Types of food

Prepared food
Work and occupation Agriculture Process harvest

Store the harvest

Conjugation sack conjugation

How do you conjugate sack?

sack · verb

Examples sack examples

How do I use sack in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I will hit the sack.
The official got the sack for currying favor with the contractors.
I need to hit the sack.
Is this your sack or hers?
I can't lift the sack either.
Let's hit the sack.
He's good in the sack.
Tom reached into the sack and pulled out some coins.
His girlfriend is a beautiful woman, but alas she is as dumb as a sack of hammers.
It is hard for an empty sack to stand straight.
They got the sack for being careless and tardy.
He was given the sack.
What's in the sack?
I want a sack of potatoes.
A car, you say! He can't even afford to buy a sack of onions.

Movie subtitles

Evan Whitestone's Santa sack was full of boxes, big, small, tiny, but all of them empty.
Sophie dropped me like a sack of coal.
To Mr. Pavlov - one sack of sugar.
The sack of gold is mine!
Go hit the sack, skipper.
Tell him to bring in that sack of smoke and the road map.
Pick up that sack, Slim.
Hey, where's that sack?
The sack's right there beside you.
If they don't find him, you will get the sack, father?
I'm going to see your boss, you'll get the sack for this!
You've been holding the wrong end of the sack. because the real money ain't working for those Texas breeders.
And they gave me the sack.
Go get the sack, Thunderer.
I can see we shall be as friendly as tomcats in a sack.
When he gives you the sack, let me know, will you?
I'm gonna eat and hit the sack.
Hang, pillage, sack them.
But they tied me in a big sack.
They put him in a little sack.
I'll tell you what we'll do. You give us a bottle of that red whisky, and Bud and me'll put all them cats in one sack and throw 'em in the creek.
Catch 'em. Get a sack.
Maybe we ought to put you in that croker sack, you little fighting cat.
He's toting a croker sack.
Reckon it's turnips he's got in that sack.
Say, you must be plumb worn out toting whatever it is you got in that old croker sack.
Lov, will you tell me whatever it is you got in that croker sack?
Why, you know, I could eat me that whole croker sack full of.
No? I hated betraying Nick, but it was like Frankie had me by the nut sack.
Gee, you're giving him the whole sack of mail.
He walks the track, a sack on his back.
No, ma'am. But they tied me in a big sack.
Oh, don't sack her, madame. I warned you.
I want a sack of cornmeal for my father's supper.
Why are you still sitting in the sack?
Listen, oh, you who are sitting in the sack!
They say he cried out for sack.
A sack.
It looks like an old sack of potatoes you bought at the market.

News and current affairs

The Ukraine president is authorized to appoint and sack the prime minister, dissolve parliament if he wishes, and rule by decree if he judges that the country's institutions are in danger.
It is time for the Afghan government to name, shame, and sack corrupt officials, arrest major drug traffickers and opium landlords, and seize their assets.
If Putin wants to save his own skin, he must act fast and sack his top KGB aides in the Kremlin and the Prosecutor General.
A new National Security Council would formalize the army's political domination of Pakistani society, with the armed forces chiefs having the power to sack the Prime Minister and dismiss an elected Parliament.
In the days of the Nazi blockade of Leningrad, Nanny took out of the city a sack of flour.
She removed a sack of flour from a city where people were killing each other for a crust of bread.
In 2006, Santa Claus again came from Germany with a sack full of good news about the business cycle.
Regular full-time employees are almost impossible to sack under Dutch law, but employers can fire part-time workers and not renew temporary contracts when they expire.
The movement of workers from low to higher productivity uses - whether from firm-to-firm, sector-to-sector or region-to-region - is thwarted if employers do not have the power to sack.
The Dutch retain the job-killing laws that make it impossible to sack regular full-time employees, but allow employers to sack part-time and temporary workers.
Their anger, inflamed in March when he tried unsuccessfully to sack the Supreme Court's independent-minded chief justice, rages on.
EU member states reacted strongly when Lukashenka tried to sack the rector of the prestigious European Humanities University, and this, along with other developments, weakened his position.
But, for many revolutionaries, there were other ways to sack a tainted prosecutor and cleanse the judiciary.

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