I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dismiss/sack an employee (= stop employing them because they have behaved badly or broken a rule )
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Seven employees were dismissed for misconduct.
sack race
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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Paul's guide to this mighty sauce is three large refuse sacks of breadcrumbs to 60 pints of milk.
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The bivvy bag can be stored in a separate compartment at the base of the larger compression sack .
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A couple of inmates were picking up leaves from around the graves, sweeping them into a large black sack .
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Setting up John retained all the filer media from the old pond in large sacks .
old
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They wrapped old sacks round themselves to keep out the cold.
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A door at the back of the barn opened, and Dad emerged, carrying an old burlap grain sack .
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It was an old plastic sack , probably used by a farmer and left outside to blow away.
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The huge old canvas sack on a chain looked like a real-life victim of a game of hangman.
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A return to the old plastic sack would presumably produce an equally instant reduction.
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They slept on piles of old sacks in the disused pigsty, had long beards and staffs, and went barefoot.
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Off I go; just an old sack chucked on the horse's back, no saddle or anything.
plastic
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On Polly's other chair was a big plastic sack of fertilizer.
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Most plastic sacks contain only 5 percent recycled content.
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Another reason is, plastic sacks are commonly contaminated by trash, such as paper and metal cans stuck inside.
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A plastic sack costs less than 2 cents.
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If everyone used plastic sacks , that would save Randalls about $ 3 million a year.
■ NOUN
paper
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We took our paper sacks to the parking lot.
■ VERB
carry
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When I offered to carry her sack she waved me aside.
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The men were wearing dark green clothes and one was carrying a white sack .
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An old wino had stopped a young man in his late teens who was carrying a huge sack of groceries.
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It was smooth and round but he carried it like a sack .
fill
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I grubbed for whole ones, baby skulls to fill my sack again and again.
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He loaded them into Carey's shirtfront, filling it like a sack .
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There is a cave in the mountains, filled with sacks of gold and bushels of jewellery.
get
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The point is, people don't get the sack on this paper.
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He wants more than anything to get the sack , to make the big play.
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Basil got the sack and next we heard Basil was trying to capture Rommel with Lord Lovatt's son.
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He always stopped and would try to get me in the sack again.
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The rumour was that Peace was told he would get the sack , if he dared to criticize Andrew's conduct again.
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He'd never thought how she got the sacks out of her car.
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They checked with the firm and they said they didn't repair it, so he got the sack .
give
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And despite giving up five sacks to Seattle, the offensive line has been a pleasant surprise.
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Reporter: How did you give up that sack ?
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He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack .
hit
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Your husband needs to relax before he hits the sack .
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When they do, they hit the sack for marathon love-making sessions - that's once Bill's made the bed!
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Then the two cups of decaff before you hit the sack .
put
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The young man was putting his grocery sack on the sidewalk.
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I think I was wearing a sweatshirt when the bagger put them in my sack .
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They were put in canvas sacks and taken to the church in Godstowe for burial.
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He put them in the sack .
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After checking to see that no hairpins were missing, Mr and Mrs Kim-Soon experimented by putting in a sack of lentils.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hit the sack
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I'm bushed. I think I'll hit the hay.
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I'm ready to hit the sack.
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Usually I come home, eat dinner, watch a little TV, and then hit the sack by 9:30 or 10:00.
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Then the two cups of decaff before you hit the sack.
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When they do, they hit the sack for marathon love-making sessions - that's once Bill's made the bed!
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Your husband needs to relax before he hits the sack.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a sack of groceries
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a brown paper sack
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Doleman is tied for the team lead in sacks with three.
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In six games against the team, he has recorded 14 tackles, four quarterback sacks and knocked down a pass.
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She held Janir in her arms, but loosely, like a sack of wheat about to be spilled.
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Somewhere among all these trees the Friar was in pursuit of his sack , not knowing that the sack was on Marian's shoulder.
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The corpses are carried out on pallets, the drop cloths and sacks removed and folded for use next time.
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The Kat was then bundled up in a sack by the Right to Censor and taken away.
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The van was capacious and he decided to fill up the space with a couple of sacks of fuel.
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They wrapped old sacks round themselves to keep out the cold.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
employee
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The Brooklyn Museum sacked employees , cancelled exhibitions, and closed one extra day a week.
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For this purpose the employer must show that he had a good reason for sacking the employee .
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It would be fair to sack the employee as incompetent or for being dishonest.
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The tribunal has to consider whether the employer acted reasonably in deciding to sack the employee .
job
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Read in studio A woman with leukaemia says she's been sacked from her job as a secretary because of her illness.
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Miss Haywood, 32, claims she was sacked from her £9,000-a-year job in January for rejecting Mr Pointer.
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He was sacked from every other job for theft, harassment of female staff or vandalism.
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Frak was sacked from her job at Ashbury Lodge before she was convicted.
manager
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They should sack the bloody manager .
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It is always a dodgy business, sacking a manager or calling for his sacking.
minister
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Mrs Thatcher duly sacked the junior minister , space enthusiast Geoffrey Pattie.
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When Mr Putin sacked the energy minister , Mr Chubais was sternly reprimanded.
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Labour's strongest challenger, the sacked Cabinet minister David Clark, managed only 192 votes to the winner's 257.
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Their sacking came on June 20, soon after the president had also sacked an unpopular minister of defense.
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A lot of Tories wanted John Patten out of education, but even tough leaders do not sack ministers in mid-crisis.
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Will he sack the Minister concerned?
president
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Their sacking came on June 20, soon after the president had also sacked an unpopular minister of defense.
staff
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In theory, he sacked thousands of staff .
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Thames has sacked 300 staff , Central 600.
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When competition enters, cutting costs invariably means sacking staff , sometimes to a drastic extent.
worker
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Enterprises have sacked workers and are running at much less than their full capacity.
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Sinking Receivers at Swan Hunter, a Tyneside shipbuilder, sacked 420 workers .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The invaders sacked Delphi and founded Galatia.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because you sacked Jim, how dare you do it?
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Either Peter would sack me, or I would improve.
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Four years later Brian and Mike, a technician and a linguist were among fourteen sacked for refusing to do so.
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Hundreds sacked in the credit card war.
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I told you to sack Wally before I left, he said.
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Perhaps, as Clement Attlee once said of a minister he was sacking, they are simply not up to the job.
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Thousands of children were sacked, many of whom then found work in more dangerous industries.
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Why sack everything, why go for the total wipeout?