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sackable

sackable adjective: sufficiently severe to warrant the perpetrator being sacked.

Adjective

sackable (comparative more sackable, superlative most sackable)

  1. Sufficiently severe to warrant the perpetrator being sacked.
    • This follows the confirmation that Gilruth personally ordered the cancellation of engineering works in Fife last year, which is thought to have been the final straw for Gibb […]. Because her Fife constituency was materially affected by the cancellation, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross...2023 May 31, “Network News: Micro-management prompted Gibb to quit ScotRail”, in RAIL, number 984, page 25

Forms of sackable

comparativemore sackable
superlativemost sackable

Origin of sackable

From sack + -able.

Words formed from sackable

Questions about sackable

What does sackable mean?
Sackable means sufficiently severe to warrant the perpetrator being sacked.
What part of speech is sackable?
Sackable is an adjective.

Words near sackable in the dictionary

  1. sack-tapping
  2. sack-taps
  3. sack-whack
  4. sack-whacks
  5. sack-whey
  6. sackable
  7. sackage
  8. sackaged
  9. sackages
  10. sackaging
  11. sackamaker

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