Sacking

Definitions: Sacking

Sacking

Noun

1. Coarse fabric used for bags or sacks.

2. The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart).

Date "sacking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Industry	A general term applied to coarse fabrics used chiefly for the making of bags or sacks. They are often made of jute or hemp, in which case the threads per centimetre may vary from 2 to over 12, the yarns, which are coarse, being from 240 tex upwards. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sacking

Synonyms: bagging (n), discharge (n), dismissal (n), dismission (n), firing (n), liberation (n), release (n), sack (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: burlaps (industry, engineering & technology).

Crosswords: Sacking

English words defined with "sacking": Gunny cloth ♦ Hessian cloth ♦ sackcloth. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sacking": DRY-KILN OPERATOR HELPER ♦ FLEECE TIER. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Dana, stop sacking Dave. (Sports Night; writing credit: Tom Brady; Kevin Falls)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Crime and the Sacking of America: The Roots of Chaos (reference) Hagar the Horrible: Sacking Paris on a Budget (reference) Sacking Paris on a Budget (Hagar Series, No. 2) (reference) The Canberra coup! : a documentary on the sacking of the Labor government, November 11, 1975 (reference) The Sacking of El Dorado (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	He wiped his hand on a piece of gunny sacking and inspected the cut.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Pakistan	Such pressure is a common feature of journalism; among extreme groups it can include physical violence, the sacking of offices, the intimidation or beating of journalists, and interference with the distribution of newspapers. (references)
Economic History	Romania	Following the FSN Prime Minister Petre Roman's brutal sacking (due to the miners' descent on Bucharest late 1991), few months before the 1992 general elections, the FSN broke in two. (references)
Political Economy	Kenya	The sacking of most of these reformers in early 2001 did little to help Kenya's image or its prospects for continued reform or further funding. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Sacking" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 52.33% of the time. "Sacking" is used about 193 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	52.33%	101	32,488
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	41.97%	81	36,835
Adjective (general or positive)	5.18%	10	111,207
Noun (proper)	0.52%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	193	N/A

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "sacking": sacking-like.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "sacking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		thes (bag, poke, receptacle, sack), plaçkitje (despoilment, despoliation, marauding, mugging, pillage, plunder, ravin, robbery, sack, spoliation), pëlhurë thasësh (bagging), grabitje (abduction, depredation, despoilment, despoliation, hold up, looting, pillage, piracy, plunder, ransack, rapine, rent, robbery, sack, spoliation). (various references)

Arabic		‏نهب (despoilment, flay, harrow, loot, looting, maraud, milk, pillage, piracy, plunder, raid, ransack, rapine, ravage, rifle, rip off, robbery, sack, spoil, spoliation, stole, strip), ‏قماش خيش, ‏طرد جماعي, ‏إسقاط من الطائرة. (various references)

Bulgarian		уволняване (discharge, removal), кеневир (gunny, sackcloth), зебло (bagging, gunny, sackcloth, tat), пълнене в чували. (various references)

Czech		pytlovina (sackcloth). (various references)

Danish		sækkelærred (bag cloth, burlap, hessian, Sackcloth), opsækning (bagging), afsækning (bagging). (various references)

Dutch		zaklinnen (burlap, hessian, sackcloth), zakkenweefsel, zakkendoek, opzakken (bagging). (various references)

Farsi		چتاءی , گونی (Gunny, Sack), درحال یورش وچپاول . (various references)

Finnish		säkkikangas (burlap, hessian, sackcloth). (various references)

French		sac (sac, sachet, sack), toile d'emballage (sackcloth), toile � serpillière, toile � sacs (Sackcloth), toile � sac (sackcloth), toile � emballer, renvoi (sack), pillage (sack), largage, grosse toile d'emballage (sackcloth), grosse toile (Sackcloth), ensachement, ensachage. (various references)

German		Sackleinen (burlap, sackcloth), plündernd (despoiling, foraying, harrying, looting, marauding, pillaging, plundering), entlassend (disbanding, dismissing, unburdening). (various references)

Greek		καραβόπανο (burlap, canvas, hemp linen, hessian, sackcloth, sail cloth), ύφασμα συσκευασίας (burlap, hessian, sackcloth), ύφασμα σάκου (burlap, hessian, sackcloth), λιάτσα σάκκων, λεηλασία (depredation, pillage, plunder, rapine, sack), τοποθέτηση σε σάκκους (bagging). (various references)

Hebrew		ארי�' שק. (various references)

Hungarian		zsákvászon (burlap, drill, gunny, hessian, sackcloth), zsákanyag, elbocsátás (discharge, dismissal, layoff, push, removal, send off). (various references)

Italian		tessuto per sacchi (burlap, hessian, sackcloth), tela di sacco (sackcloth), licenziamento (brushoff, discharge, dismissal, redundance, redundancy, retiring, sack, suspension, suspension of staff, walking papers), insaccamento (bagging). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		免職 (discharge, dismissal). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		め�"しょく (complexion, discharge, dismissal, expression). (various references)

Pig Latin		ackingsay.(various references)

Portuguese		serapilheira, ensacamento (bagging). (various references)

Romanian		ambalare în saci. (various references)

Russian		увольнение (chuck, discharge, dismissal, layoff, leave, quit), грубый холст, мешковина (bagging, sackcloth), дерюга (gunny, hessian). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sargija (burlap, packing sheet, sackcloth). (various references)

Spanish		arpillera (bag cloth, burlap, hessian, Sackcloth). (various references)

Swedish		säckväv (bagging, burlap, gunny, sackcloth). (various references)

Thai		ผ้ากระสอบ (gunny, sackcloth). (various references)

Turkish		yağmalama (depredation, marauding), yağma (booty, despoilment, despoliation, foray, loot, looting, pelf, pillage, plunder, pour, rapine, razzia, sack, spoil, spoliation, swag), çuval bezi (bagging, burlap, gunny, hessian, pack-cloth, sackcloth). (various references)

Ukranian		насипання у мішки, мішковина (bagging, burlap, osnaburg, sackcloth). (various references)

Vietnamese		vải l� m bao tải. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	depopulatio, depopulatione, spoliatio. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sacking": sackings. (additional references)
	Words ending with "sacking": hopsacking, ransacking. (additional references)
	Words containing "sacking": hopsackings. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sacking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sackingen, sacring, saking, Sakong, Samkin, sankin, Sankong, sarking, Sashkin, sicking. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sacking" (pronounced sa"king)
4	-a" k i ng	attacking, backing, cracking, hacking, jacking, lacking, packing, racking, smacking, stacking, tacking, tracking, unpacking, whacking, wracking.
3	-k i ng	aching, antismoking, asking, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wreaking, wrecking, yanking.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: casking.
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-k-n-s"
	-1 letter: asking, caking, casing, gaskin, kiangs.
	-2 letters: acing, cains, gains, ginks, kains, kiang, kinas, kings, nicks, snack, snick.
	-3 letters: agin, ains, akin, anis, asci, cain, cans, cask, cigs, gain, gink, gins, inks, kain, kina, king, kins, nags, nick, sack, sain, saki, sang, sank, scag, scan, sick, sign, sing, sink, skag, skin, snag.
	-4 letters: ain, ais, ani, ask, can, cig, cis, gan, gas, gin, ick, ink, ins, kas, kin, nag, sac, sag, sic, sin, ska, ski.
	-5 letters: ag, ai, an, as, in, is, ka, na, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-k-n-s"
	+1 letter: backings, packings, sackings, slacking, smacking, snacking, stacking.
	+2 letters: backswing, blackings, casketing, caulkings, crackings, screaking, shackling, spackling, tacklings, trackings, wingbacks.
	+3 letters: backswings, cracklings, hijackings, hopsacking, kingcrafts, mosaicking, ransacking, restacking, skyjacking, slackening, stockading, unstacking.
	+4 letters: backbitings, backlashing, backlisting, backsliding, backspacing, backwashing, blackenings, caretakings, carjackings, glucokinase, hopsackings, pacemakings, shellacking, skyjackings, stocktaking, unshackling.
	+5 letters: backcrossing, backslapping, backstabbing, backstopping, blacklisting, bricklayings, bushwhacking, glucokinases, greenbackism, kickstarting, kneecappings, linebackings, matchmakings, meatpackings, mispackaging, packinghouse, peacemakings, racewalkings, safecracking, shellackings, sidetracking, spacewalking, stocktakings, tracklayings, walkingstick, watchmakings, wisecracking.
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