verb
- 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, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
- Terminate a relationship abruptly.
- usage: "Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman"
- synonyms: give the bounce, give the gate
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