Sack

Synonyms for "sack" (379 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (76)

fire bag can dismissal lay off loot net pouch acquire assault attack ax axe balloon banditry banish barbarize barrel basket batter

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Verb(7 words)

can dismiss fire give the axe terminate axe clear

Noun(9 words)

poke bag ball sack bawbag booty carrier bag chemise chop clackerbag

Strong matches (114)

corral couch crate defrock degrade demote deplume deposal depose depredate depredation deprive derive desecrate desolate desolation despoil despoiling despoilment despoliation

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Verb(19 words)

decruit dehire discard discharge displace downsize fang force out forget fuck give notice give someone the boot give someone the heave-ho give someone the old heave-ho give someone their cards give the chop give the elbow give the sack harry

Noun(7 words)

discharge dismissal dismission dressing jacket firing hammock hay

Related words (189)

kick out kick upstairs kip kip down lade land lasso lay waste layoff let go let out litter load looting make make redundant maraud marauding mass maul

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Verb(21 words)

lay off let go let someone go loot make redundant net pink slip plunder promote to customer ransack remove retrench sack up screw send away serve notice shit-can shop term throw out

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unhire

Noun(24 words)

liberation nutsack one's cards paper bag pelf pink slip pocket pouch rack release sac sackful sacking sacque scrote scrotum shift swag the axe the boot

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the chop the elbow the old heave-ho tote

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

15 relation types

More general

23 entries

bag bed benefit case cavity conclusion containerful dress encase enclosed space ending frock gain incase jacket pillage

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More specific

1 entries

bindle

Antonyms

2 entries

hire take on

Synonyms

15 entries

axe bag booty can chemise dismissal fire give sack hammock hay lay off loot net pouch rack

Related terms

13 entries

Sack in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)claret haversack hock knapsack rucksack sac sachet sack off sack up sacque satchel tent

at location

1 entries

office

derived

99 entries

Hacky-Sack Santa sack Zdarsky tent-sack back, crack and sack backsack ball sack ballsac ballsack barley sack bivouac sack bollock sack booksack carisack cat in the sack coalsack cock sack

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entails

1 entries

destroy

etymologically related_to

3 entries

ransack seck wyne

form of

1 entries

sac

has context

6 entries

american football baseball iemand den zak geven slang us vulgar

is a

11 entries

bag casing containerful flexible thing foldable thing jacket non powered device plundering storage device transport container white wine

manner of

2 entries

encase take

related to

76 entries

amount bag bed booty brown brown bag burlap burlap bag cape claret cloak cloth cloth bag commodity container days

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similar

11 entries

bag bring in clear earn gain make net pull in realise realize take in

Translations

309 translations across 103 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

sak noun (bag for commodities or items)

Albanian

1 entries

thes noun (bag for commodities or items)

Ancient Greek

4 entries

θύλακος noun (bag for commodities or items)
πόρθησις noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
σάκκος noun (bag for commodities or items)
σάκτας noun (bag for commodities or items)

Arabic

2 entries

كيس noun (bag for commodities or items)
كِيس noun (bag for commodities or items)

Armenian

2 entries

պարկ noun (bag for commodities or items)
քսակ noun (bag for commodities or items)

Aromanian

1 entries

sac noun (bag for commodities or items)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

çuval noun (bag for commodities or items)

Bashkir

2 entries

тоҡ noun (bag for commodities or items)
тоҡ noun (amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount)

Belarusian

1 entries

мяшо́к noun (bag for commodities or items)

Bengali

2 entries

ছালা noun (bag for commodities or items)
বস্তা noun (bag for commodities or items)

Bhojpuri

1 entries

थैला noun (bag for commodities or items)

Bulgarian

4 entries

плячка noun (booty obtained by pillage)
постеля noun (colloquial: bed)
разграбване noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
уволнение noun (informal: dismissal from employment)

Burmese

1 entries

အိတ် noun (bag for commodities or items)

Catalan

4 entries

botí noun (booty obtained by pillage)
sac noun (bag for commodities or items)
saqueig noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
acomiadar verb (informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᏕᎦᎵᏗ noun (bag for commodities or items)

Chinese

1 entries

бозы noun (bag for commodities or items)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

劫掠 noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
包 noun (bag for commodities or items)
囊 noun (bag for commodities or items)
洗劫 noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)

Czech

1 entries

pytel noun (bag for commodities or items)

Danish

4 entries

afskedigelse noun (informal: dismissal from employment)
bytte noun (booty obtained by pillage)
fyring noun (informal: dismissal from employment)
pose noun (bag for commodities or items)

Dutch

4 entries

nest noun (colloquial: bed)
plunder noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
plundering noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
zak noun (bag for commodities or items)

Egyptian

1 entries

q:r-f:t-S28 noun (bag for commodities or items)

Esperanto

1 entries

sako noun (bag for commodities or items)

Estonian

1 entries

kott noun (bag for commodities or items)

Faroese

1 entries

sekkur noun (bag for commodities or items)

Finnish

4 entries

munat noun (slang: scrotum)
pehkut noun (colloquial: bed)
potkut noun (informal: dismissal from employment)
pussit noun (slang: scrotum)

French

4 entries

butin noun (booty obtained by pillage)
lit noun (colloquial: bed)
paquet noun (informal: dismissal from employment)
pieu noun (colloquial: bed)

Friulian

1 entries

sac noun (bag for commodities or items)

Galician

3 entries

roubo noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
saco noun (bag for commodities or items)
chimpar verb (informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire)

Georgian

4 entries

განთავისუფლება noun (informal: dismissal from employment)
დათხოვნა noun (informal: dismissal from employment)
ნაძარცვი noun (booty obtained by pillage)
პარკი noun (bag for commodities or items)

German

4 entries

Beutel noun (bag for commodities or items)
Papiersack noun (bag for commodities or items)
Plünderung noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
Sack noun (bag for commodities or items)

Gothic

2 entries

𐌱𐌰𐌻𐌲𐍃 noun (bag for commodities or items)
𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌺𐌿𐍃 noun (bag for commodities or items)

Greek

4 entries

απόλυση noun (informal: dismissal from employment)
διαγούμισμα noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
κούρσεμα noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
λάφυρα noun (booty obtained by pillage)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

sak noun (bag for commodities or items)

Hebrew

2 entries

אַמְתַּחַת noun (bag for commodities or items)
שַׂק noun (bag for commodities or items)

Hindi

4 entries

थैला noun (bag for commodities or items)
थैली noun (bag for commodities or items)
बोरा noun (bag for commodities or items)
बोरी noun (bag for commodities or items)

Hiri Motu

1 entries

puse noun (bag for commodities or items)

Hungarian

2 entries

fosztogatás noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
zsák noun (bag for commodities or items)

Icelandic

3 entries

poki noun (bag for commodities or items)
posi noun (bag for commodities or items)
sekkur noun (bag for commodities or items)

Ido

4 entries

sakedo noun (amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount)
sako noun (bag for commodities or items)
spoliajo noun (booty obtained by pillage)
spolio noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)

Indonesian

1 entries

karung noun (bag for commodities or items)

Ingrian

1 entries

rööstää verb (to plunder)

Irish

2 entries

sac noun (bag for commodities or items)
creach verb (to plunder)

Italian

4 entries

benservito noun (informal: dismissal from employment)
bottino noun (booty obtained by pillage)
saccheggio noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
sacco noun (bag for commodities or items)

Japanese

2 entries

サック noun (bag for commodities or items)
袋 noun (bag for commodities or items)

Kazakh

1 entries

қап noun (bag for commodities or items)

Khmer

1 entries

ថង់ noun (bag for commodities or items)

Korean

1 entries

자루 noun (bag for commodities or items)

Kyrgyz

3 entries

кап noun (bag for commodities or items)
мешок noun (bag for commodities or items)
мүшөк noun (bag for commodities or items)

Lao

1 entries

ຖົງ noun (bag for commodities or items)

Latin

3 entries

culeus noun (bag for commodities or items)
follis noun (bag for commodities or items)
saccus noun (bag for commodities or items)

Latvian

2 entries

maiss noun (bag for commodities or items)
maiss noun (amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount)

Lithuanian

1 entries

maišas noun (bag for commodities or items)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

měch noun (bag for commodities or items)

Macedonian

4 entries

арар noun (bag for commodities or items)
вреќа noun (bag for commodities or items)
грабеж noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
кревет noun (colloquial: bed)

Malay

2 entries

guni noun (bag for commodities or items)
karung noun (bag for commodities or items)

Malayalam

2 entries

ചാക്ക് noun (bag for commodities or items)
ചാക്ക് noun (amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount)

Mandinka

1 entries

boto noun (bag for commodities or items)

Middle English

2 entries

sak noun (bag for commodities or items)
sak noun (amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount)

Mingrelian

1 entries

საკი noun (bag for commodities or items)

Mongolian

3 entries

уут noun (bag for commodities or items)
хүүдий noun (bag for commodities or items)
шуудай noun (bag for commodities or items)

Motu

1 entries

puse noun (bag for commodities or items)

Māori

4 entries

pana noun (informal: dismissal from employment)
pananga noun (informal: dismissal from employment)
parakete noun (booty obtained by pillage)
pēke noun (bag for commodities or items)

Navajo

1 entries

naaltsoos azis noun (bag for commodities or items)

Neapolitan

1 entries

sacco noun (bag for commodities or items)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries

djunia noun (bag for commodities or items)

Norwegian

2 entries

sparken noun (informal: dismissal from employment)
plyndre verb (to plunder)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

pose noun (bag for commodities or items)
sekk noun (bag for commodities or items)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

pose noun (bag for commodities or items)
sekk noun (bag for commodities or items)

Occitan

1 entries

sac noun (bag for commodities or items)

Ojibwe

1 entries

mashkimod noun (bag for commodities or items)

Old Church Slavonic

1 entries

врѣтище noun (bag for commodities or items)

Old English

1 entries

codd noun (bag for commodities or items)

Old Norse

2 entries

posi noun (bag for commodities or items)
sekkr noun (bag for commodities or items)

Ottoman Turkish

4 entries

تاراج noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
تاراج noun (booty obtained by pillage)
صویغون noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
طوربه noun (bag for commodities or items)

Persian

3 entries

ساک noun (bag for commodities or items)
کیسه noun (bag for commodities or items)
گونی noun (bag for commodities or items)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Sak noun (bag for commodities or items)

Polish

1 entries

worek noun (bag for commodities or items)

Portuguese

4 entries

despedido noun (informal: dismissal from employment)
saca noun (bag for commodities or items)
saco noun (bag for commodities or items)
saco noun (slang: scrotum)

Romani

1 entries

gono noun (bag for commodities or items)

Romanian

2 entries

sac noun (bag for commodities or items)
prăda verb (to plunder)

Russian

4 entries

грабёж noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
добы́ча noun (booty obtained by pillage)
куль noun (bag for commodities or items)
мешо́к noun (bag for commodities or items)

Sardinian

1 entries

sacu noun (bag for commodities or items)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

baga noun (bag for commodities or items)
baga noun (amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount)
màileid noun (bag for commodities or items)
màileid noun (amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

vrȅća noun (bag for commodities or items)
вре̏ћа noun (bag for commodities or items)

Shor

1 entries

қап noun (bag for commodities or items)

Slovak

1 entries

vrece noun (bag for commodities or items)

Slovene

2 entries

bisaga noun (bag for commodities or items)
torba noun (bag for commodities or items)

Spanish

4 entries

bolsa noun (bag for commodities or items)
botín noun (booty obtained by pillage)
chácara noun (bag for commodities or items)
costal noun (bag for commodities or items)

Swahili

1 entries

gunia noun (bag for commodities or items)

Swedish

4 entries

plundring noun (the plunder and pillaging of a city)
sparken noun (informal: dismissal from employment)
säck noun (bag for commodities or items)
säckfull noun (amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount)

Tajik

2 entries

халта noun (bag for commodities or items)
ҷувол noun (bag for commodities or items)

Talysh

1 entries

کیسه noun (bag for commodities or items)

Thai

1 entries

ถุง noun (bag for commodities or items)

Tocharian B

1 entries

ṣorpor noun (bag for commodities or items)

Turkish

3 entries

çuval noun (bag for commodities or items)
sepetlemek verb (informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire)
yağmalamak verb (to plunder)

Turkmen

2 entries

halta noun (bag for commodities or items)
çuwal noun (bag for commodities or items)

Ukrainian

2 entries

мішо́к noun (bag for commodities or items)
мішо́к noun (amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount)

Unami

2 entries

mënutès noun (bag for commodities or items)
èmsinutay noun (bag for commodities or items)

Urdu

2 entries

بورا noun (bag for commodities or items)
بوری noun (bag for commodities or items)

Uzbek

2 entries

qop noun (bag for commodities or items)
xalta noun (bag for commodities or items)

Vietnamese

2 entries

bao noun (bag for commodities or items)
bao tải noun (bag for commodities or items)

Yiddish

1 entries

זאַק noun (bag for commodities or items)

Zazaki

2 entries

xalte noun (bag for commodities or items)
çuwal noun (bag for commodities or items)

Sample sentences

46 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

It is hard for an empty sack to stand straight.

Source: tatoeba (28142)

I will hit the sack.

Source: tatoeba (31224)

The official got the sack for currying favor with the contractors.

Source: tatoeba (43571)

In British English, "to get the sack" means to be fired from your job.

Source: tatoeba (66597)

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