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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a sacking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the act of dismissing someone from their job, often in a sudden or informal manner.
Example: "After a series of poor performances, the coach announced a sacking of the team's star player."
Alternatives: "a dismissal" or "a termination".
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Was it a sacking offence?
The season hasn't even started and there's been a sacking.
This was a sacking several months in the making.
9.44am: There's been a sacking over the publication of those hoax leaked cables in Pakistan, according to the Hindu.
The staff, too, seem relaxed and can even be seen laughing and joking – a sacking offence in most restaurants of this formality.
That would have been a sacking offence for most politicians, but his mother, Mrs Gandhi, wants him to run the family business.
"I don't accept that we sacked the coach," said Little, before explaining a convoluted process that sounded a lot like, well, a sacking.
But the following season, 2009-2010, a solitary win in ten left them 17th in week 15 and the winter break again brought a sacking.
The simple explanation for the tight race is the ambiguity of the economy's recent performance: too weak to make Mr Obama a shoo-in, too strong to earn him a sacking.
Endowed with perhaps the world's most talented squad, he has extracted from it close to the minimum; his preference for André-Pierre Gignac ahead of Anthony Martial is a sacking offence in and of itself.
And that doesn't make it anything other than a sacking letter, as Ron's political boss, Brian Coleman, chairman of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority, has stated publicly, adding that he is "quite relaxed" about sacking all London's firefighters.
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