Meaning of DISMISSAL
| Pronunciation: | | dis'misul
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- [n] the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- [n] a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial
- [n] permission to go; the sending away of someone
- [n] official notice that you have been fired from your job
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| | Synonyms: | | discharge, dismission, dismission, firing, judgement of dismissal, judgment of dismissal, liberation, pink slip, release, sack, sacking |
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| | See Also: | | conclusion, conge, deactivation, dishonorable discharge, ending, inactivation, judgement, judgment, judicial decision, notice, permission, removal, Section Eight, superannuation, termination | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*miss"al\, n.
Dismission; discharge.
Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it,
upon pain of immediate dismissal. --Motley.
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| | Definition: | | The termination of a lawsuit. (See with prejudice and without prejudice.) |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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