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When people lose their jobs they may be dismissed, sacked, fired or kicked out; they may be out on their ear or on their neck; they may be shown the door; or they may be given their cards, their marching orders, the push, the elbow, the old heave-ho or the order of the boot. Some professions, however, have their own individual terminology for this situation: a clergyman may be defrocked, a lawye…