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- adjective of an act Sufficiently severe to warrant the
perpetrator being sacked.
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Examples
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We've seen the ineffectual PAS officers at work, this week it's Stella who commits some sackable offences.
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In the context of a live club appearance, a standup will say things that would be a sackable offence if repeated in the workplace, or lead to death threats if hysterically recounted on the front page of a national paper accompanied by a portrait snap.
Charlie Brooker: We shouldn't have to feel paranoid about snoops listening in to everything we say 2011
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Kids spent Xmas with me and my wife (oops – politically correct sackable term).
How Did It Come To This? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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It seems adding comments to blogs from state run computers is a sackable offence.
Free Michael Jackson mp3 downloads « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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As a manager, depending on what the pressure is like, it could be a sackable performance that.
Cardiff City and Blackpool increase pressure on leaders with wins 2012
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This was nicely illustrated in the brilliant film "Waiting for Superman," with its depressing footage of un-sackable teachers killing time, co llecting salaries and waiting to retire.
What Cameron Can Teach Obama Neil O'Brien 2011
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Why would a hacker break company rules and commit a sackable offence simply to write a matey-matey email to Marwood?
From Partridge to Brent – why the jokes have stopped for Garry Cook 2011
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I doubt Cameron will want to rile up all the MPs who agree with Duncan - if not the way he expressed it - by deeming this a sackable offence.
The Tory grassroots deliver their verdict on Alan Duncan 2009
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Do you take warrant card is practically a sackable offence for us these days …
The Pain of Being Pure At Heart « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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They have recognized publicly that they are being accused of a sackable offense.wbQuote
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