firingnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfaɪə.rɪŋ/us/ˈfaɪ.rɪŋ/firing noun [ C ] (DISMISSAL)
mainly US an act of removing someone from their job:
hirings and firings
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Firing staff
- axe
- be out on your ear idiom
- chop
- constructive dismissal
- defrock
- delayering
- get the push idiom
- give sb the heave-ho idiom
- grass
- heave-ho
- invalid sb out
- lay sb off
- pension
- relieve
- removal
- remove
- retire
- sack
- sacking
- shakeout
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firing noun [ C ] (CRITICISM)
Indian English an act of speaking angrily to someone because you disapprove of what they have done:
The official couldn't escape the firing by his superintendent.
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Chastising & rebuking
- admonition
- barracking
- bawl
- be in sb's face idiom
- beat yourself up
- bring
- dressing-down
- jump down sb's throat idiom
- keelhaul
- lambaste
- lay
- neck
- rebuke
- reprimand
- reproachful
- there'll be hell to pay idiom
- throw
- throw the book at sb idiom
- tirade
- upbraid
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