fired

[fired]

A person who's described as fired has been laid off from their job. A fired used car salesperson might be happier working as a librarian.

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Adjective S.
having lost your job


imp. & p. p.
of Fire


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Usage Examples

I get all fired up about aging in America.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

In the car and in front of the camera I tend to be very calm but behind the scenes I can get fired up and passionate, I just don't see the need to shout my mouth off in public.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.

I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

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