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sack

verb as in remove from position of responsibility

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Powell was sacked from her role as Commons leader in a reshuffle last month.

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"We have given police chiefs the powers to automatically sack officers who fail background checks and dismiss those guilty of gross misconduct, and we expect them to be used," she said.

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The Met Police said it had undertaken a major cultural turnaround and sacked bad officers.

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He was later sacked and Susan had nine complaints upheld by the Care Inspectorate.

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Last week, Madagascar's president announced that he had sacked the energy minister for failing to do his job properly, but protesters demanded that the president and the rest of his government step down too.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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