verb
- Preserve in a can or tin.
- usage: "tinned foods are not very tasty"
- Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.
- usage: "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
- synonyms: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
adjective
- Recorded for broadcast.
- usage: "a transcribed announcement"; "canned laughter"
- synonyms: transcribed
- Sealed in a can or jar.
- synonyms: tinned
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