give the sack
Verb
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Terminate the employment of;
Discharge from an office or position (synset 202407967)"The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"is a type of: remove - remove from a position or an officesubtypes:- retire - make (someone) retire
- pension off - let go from employment with an attractive pension
- clean out - force out
- furlough, lay off - dismiss, usually for economic reasons
- squeeze out - force out
- dismiss, drop, send away, send packing - stop associating with
same as: can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, sack, send away, terminate
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