verb
1. terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
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The boss fired his secretary today
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The company terminated 25% of its workers
• Syn:
↑displace, ↑fire, ↑give notice, ↑can, ↑dismiss, ↑send away, ↑sack, ↑force out, ↑give the sack, ↑terminate
• Derivationally related forms: ↑sack (for: ↑sack), ↑sacking (for: ↑sack), ↑dismissible (for: ↑dismiss), ↑dismission (for: ↑dismiss), ↑dismissal (for: ↑dismiss), ↑firing (for: ↑fire)
• Hypernyms: ↑remove
• Hyponyms:
↑retire, ↑pension off, ↑clean out, ↑furlough, ↑lay off, ↑squeeze out, ↑dismiss, ↑send packing, ↑send away, ↑drop
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody
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Somebody ——s somebody to INFINITIVE
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Somebody ——s PP
(for: ↑give the sack)-
Somebody ——s PP
2. terminate a relationship abruptly
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Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman
• Syn: ↑give the bounce, ↑give the gate
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody something
Useful english dictionary. 2012.