feuern

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German

Etymology

From Feuer. The sense terminate employment is a semantic loan from English.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɔʏ̯ɐn/
  • Hyphenation: feu‧ern
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Verb

feuern (weak, third-person singular present feuert, past tense feuerte, past participle gefeuert, auxiliary haben)

  1. (weaponry) to fire
  2. (transitive) to fire (terminate employment)
    Synonyms: entlassen, rausschmeißen, schassen
    Es tut mir leid, aber Sie sind gefeuert.I'm sorry, but you're fired.
    • 2021 December 8, Cathrin Gilbert, “Herr Reichelt, können Sie ohne "Bild" leben?”, in Die Zeit:
      Am 18. Oktober hat Mathias Döpfner, Chef des Springer-Verlags, ihn gefeuert. Denn Reichelt steht im Zentrum des größten MeToo-Skandals der deutschen Presse, es geht um Affären, Sexismus und mutmaßlichen Machtmissbrauch.
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  3. (intransitive) to fire (feed a fire)
  4. (intransitive) to fire (of neurons)

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Further reading

  • feuern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • feuern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • feuern” in Duden online
  • feuern” in OpenThesaurus.de