give the sack

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give the sack - terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

give notice, give the axe, sack, send away, can, force out, displace, fire, dismiss, terminate

retire - make (someone) retire; "The director was retired after the scandal"

pension off - let go from employment with an attractive pension; "The director was pensioned off when he got senile"

clean out - force out; "The new boss cleaned out the lazy workers"

furlough, lay off - dismiss, usually for economic reasons; "She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized"

squeeze out - force out; "Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts"

remove - remove from a position or an office

send away, send packing, dismiss, drop - stop associating with; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock"

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Unite has drafted a letter to Sir Stuart Rose which it intends to deliver to M&S head offices after the protest, calling on him to put pressure on 2 Sisters to give the sacked workers their jobs back.

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