Dismissal
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Noun
Dismissal (plural Dismissals)- The act of sending someone away.
- Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
- A written or spoken statement of such an act.
- Release from confinement; liberation.
- Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.
- (law) The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
- (cricket) The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.
Adjectives for Dismissal
contemptuous; harsh; ignominious; brusque; impudent; abrupt; summary; instant; immediate.
Verbs for Dismissal
annul—; bow—; counsel—; demand—; denounce—; indicate—; justify—; order—; punish by—; request—; seek—; suffer—; threaten with—; urge—; wave—; —discourages; —liberates; —rectifies; —releases; —sets free.
Thesaurus
abjuration, abjurement, absolution, acquittal, acquittance, adjournment, bounce, breakup, brush-off, cancellation, cashiering, chucking, chucking out, clearance, clearing, cold shoulder, compurgation, conge, contempt, contradiction, cut, deactivation, declination, declining, deconsecration, defrocking, demobilization, denial, deposal, deposition, deprivation, despisal, despising, destigmatization, destigmatizing, detachment, dethronement, diaspora, disapproval, disbandment, disbarment, disbarring, discard, discharge, disclamation, discounting, discrownment, disculpation, disemployment, disenthronement, disintegration, disorganization, disownment, dispersal, dispersion, displacement, displacing, disregard, dissolution, drumming out, end, exception, exclusion, excommunication, exculpation, excuse, exoneration, expulsion, firing, forced resignation, forced separation, forgiveness, furloughing, ignoring, impeachment, kicking upstairs, layoff, liquidation, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconsideration, notice, ousting, overthrow, overthrowal, pardon, parole, parting, passing by, pensioning off, pink slip, purgation, purge, purging, putting away, putting out, quietus, quittance, rebuff, recantation, refusal, rejection, release, remission, removal, renouncement, repudiation, repulse, retirement, sack, sacking, scouting, separation, snub, split-up, spurning, superannuation, surplusing, suspension, the ax, the boot, the bounce, the gate, the sack, throwing out, ticket, turning out, unbinding, unbolting, unbridling, unbuckling, uncaging, unchaining, unchurching, unfettering, unfrocking, ungagging, unhanding, unharnessing, unhobbling, unlashing, unlatching, unleashing, unlocking, unloosing, unmanacling, unmuzzling, unpenning, unseating, unshackling, unstrapping, untethering, untrussing, untying, unyoking, verdict of acquittal, vindication, walking papers
Etymology
From dismiss. A nineteenth-century coinage (modelled on committal etc.), replacing the regular form dismission.
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