Meaning & use
sacking
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A coarse, heavy fabric, often made from jute or hemp, traditionally used to make sacks.
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The potatoes were stored in bags made of rough sacking.
She upholstered the old chair with sacking before adding the final fabric layer.
A note on using this word
Also used informally in British English as a noun for being dismissed from a job, as in he got the sacking.
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2. noun
The act of dismissing someone from employment.
The sacking of the coach came just days after the team's worst defeat.
3. verb
To plunder and destroy a captured town or city.
The invading army spent days sacking the city after breaching its walls.
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