Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of dismissing.
- noun The condition of being dismissed.
- noun An order or notice of discharge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of dismissing, or the state or fact of being dismissed.
- noun Discharge; displacement from employment or office.
- noun The act of discarding, or the state of being discarded.
- noun Liberation; manumission.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Dismission; discharge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of sending someone away.
- noun Deprivation of
office ; the fact or process of beingfired from employment or stripped of rank. - noun A written or spoken statement of such an act.
- noun
Release from confinement;liberation . - noun Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.
- noun law The
rejection of a legalproceeding , or aclaim orcharge made therein. - noun cricket The
event of abatsman getting out; awicket .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- noun permission to go; the sending away of someone
- noun official notice that you have been fired from your job
- noun a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial
Etymologies
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Examples
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It has been suggested that the real reason for the dismissal is the handling of the Marcellus shale controversy.
Henry J. Stern: The Pete Grannis Dismissal: A New Low Henry J. Stern 2010
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And I will continue to think my dismissal is another mistake in a long series of unwise decisions.
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And I will continue to think my dismissal is another mistake in a long series of unwise decisions.
Education 2009
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It has been suggested that the real reason for the dismissal is the handling of the Marcellus shale controversy.
Henry J. Stern: The Pete Grannis Dismissal: A New Low Henry J. Stern 2010
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It has been suggested that the real reason for the dismissal is the handling of the Marcellus shale controversy.
Henry J. Stern: The Pete Grannis Dismissal: A New Low Henry J. Stern 2010
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His accounts are first hand, eyewitness testimony, and your dismissal is the 'rhetoric' here.
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His accounts are first hand, eyewitness testimony, and your dismissal is the 'rhetoric' here.
Oh, enough already! 2004
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His accounts are first hand, eyewitness testimony, and your dismissal is the 'rhetoric' here.
Archive 2004-03-01 2004
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His accounts are first hand, eyewitness testimony, and your dismissal is the 'rhetoric' here.
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I like your idea that this kind of dismissal is a way of pushing upsetting, dangerous fiction aside.
bilby commented on the word dismissal
Cricket jargon - the act of dismissing a batsman; the fall of a wicket.
November 30, 2007