Word.ws English Dictionary

given the sack

given the sack is the past participle of give the sack.

Meaning of give the sack

Verb

give the sack (third-person singular simple present gives the sack, present participle giving the sack, simple past gave the sack, past participle given the sack)

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic, transitive) To dismiss from employment
    Synonyms:
    sack, fire

Questions about given the sack

What is given the sack the past participle of?
Given the sack is the past participle of give the sack.

Words near given the sack in the dictionary

  1. given the floor
  2. given the game away
  3. given the lie
  4. given the lie to
  5. given the royal treatment
  6. given the sack
  7. given the stem
  8. given the time of day
  9. given the word
  10. given thought
  11. given time

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: given the sack (page history and authors); give the sack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “given the sack.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/given_the_sack. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.