Answer to "Off the payroll" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word FIRED , but the solution may also be AXED which is one of the most recent solution (2009 in The Onion).

Off the payroll crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
FIRED	33 %	5
SACKED	33 %	6
AXED	33 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Off the payroll

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• unemployed
• unemployed person
• jobless
• oahu
• blank
• opening
• unoccupied
• pointless
• unprotected
• absence
• hidalgo
• vacant

Crossword Answer definitions

FIRED verb

1. To set (something, often a building) on fire.
2. To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
3. To drive away by setting a fire.
4. To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
5. To shoot (a gun or analogous device).
6. To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
7. To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
8. To cause an action potential in a cell.
9. To forcibly direct (something).
10. (computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
11. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
12. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
13. To feed or serve the fire of.
14. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
15. To cauterize.
16. To catch fire; to be kindled.
17. To be irritated or inflamed with passion.

FIRED adjective

1. Dismissed, let go from a job.
2. Heated in a furnace, kiln, etc., to become permanently hardened.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result FIRED

• Baked in a kiln
• Off the payroll
• Leaving work early, perhaps
• Shot
• Given the boot
• Discharged
• Given the gate
• Let go
• Given the ax
• Terminated

More clues leading to the result SACKED

• Thwarted the quarterback
• Canned
• Plundered
• Took down the quarterback
• Pillaged
• Threw for a loss
• Fired.
• Put in a bag.
• Fired
• Gave the ax to

More clues leading to the result AXED

• Canceled
• Fired
• Terminated
• Gave the boot
• Cut, in a way
• Let go
• Canned
• Clear cut?
• Felled
• Got rid of