0 a large bag made of strong cloth, paper, or plastic, used to store large amounts of something: --
1 a situation in which someone is removed from their job: --
2 an attack on a building or town in which a lot of destruction is caused and many valuable things are stolen: --
3 in American football, an attack on the quarterback that prevents him from throwing the ball: --
4 bed: --
5 to remove someone from a job, usually because they have done something wrong or badly, or sometimes as a way of saving the cost of employing them: --
He got sacked from his last job.
They sacked her for being late.
The feeding artery was extremely distended and tortuous, being connected to a large sack-like malformation.
From then on, most of the oficinas closed down, becoming a collection of ruins, abandoned and sacked, in the midst of the desert.
The pointing is not raked or trowelled as usual but 'bagged off', crudely wiped with an old sack, causing the bricks to be smeared.
During the third year drip irrigation had been completely abandoned and only three farmers still used the mobile sack.
A tiny boy, helping his family, carries a sack of coal he has gathered somewhere.
She collects all crop residues from her maize and stores cowpea leaves in sacks.
These bands of sacking were found to contain very large numbers of larvae.
The economy was probably based on a combination of livestock keeping, some cultivation and sacking the countryside, as was common in this period.
