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sackable

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Etymology

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From sack +‎ -able.

Adjective

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sackable (comparative more sackable, superlative most sackable)

  1. (of an act) Sufficiently severe to warrant the perpetrator being sacked.
    • 2023 May 31, “Network News: Micro-management prompted Gibb to quit ScotRail”, in RAIL, number 984, page 25:
      This follows the confirmation that Gilruth personally ordered the cancellation of engineering works in Fife last year, which is thought to have been the final straw for Gibb [] . Because her Fife constituency was materially affected by the cancellation, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross, who raised Gibb's departure at First Minister's Questions on May 18, described the incident as a "clear-cut sackable offence".

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