The word "sacked" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean to dismiss or terminate someone from a job, or to sack something such as materials. For example: The company decided to sack all of the interns working in the marketing department.
Michael Moore, who had been sacked as Scotland secretary a few months earlier in the autumn of 2013, says: "Tightening the position from 'highly unlikely' was a mistake.
A 10-day strike starting at the National Gallery on Tuesday has taken on an added dimension now one of the Public and Commercial Services union's senior representatives, Candy Udwin – suspended on the eve of the first strike in February (Letters, 12 March) – has been sacked.
Rather than respond to the concerns of health workers, the government sacked the Immigration Health Advisory Group.
Had Harding sought out the independent directors they could theoretically have blocked him from being sacked – but it is not clear how any editor of the Times or Sunday Times could function without the support of the proprietor.
"I'm not saying people should be sacked, but certainly they should be demoted.
They sacked him at the end of last season and replaced him with Mauricio Pochettino.
At this point, his party made a catastrophic tactical error: instead of confronting him, pulling him into line, imposing discipline on this office, making all that was positive about the man work for the Labor government, they sacked him.
Tony Abbott and the Coalition have sacked three departmental heads in a modest shakeup of the public service after promising no "night of the long knives".
Related: Grant Shapps sacked from cabinet in Cameron's reshuffle Two senior figures have lost the right to attend cabinet: Grant Shapps, the Tory chairman, who was demoted to an international development minister, and Eric Pickles, the communities secretary, who will become the government's anti-corruption tsar.
He was sacked from the government, but Malaysia's supreme court eventually cleared him and he was released in 2004.
But asked if MPs should be sacked for telling lies, he said: "If you are suggesting every MP who has never quite told the truth or even told a brazen lie, including cabinet ministers, including prime ministers, we would clear out the House of Commons very fast".
