Meaning of LIBERATION
| Pronunciation: | | `libu'reyshun
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- [n] the act of liberating someone or something
- [n] the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- [n] the attempt to achieve equal rights or status; "she worked for women's liberation"
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| | Synonyms: | | discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, freeing, release, sack, sacking |
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| | See Also: | | accomplishment, achievement, attempt, clearing, conclusion, conge, deactivation, deregulating, deregulation, disentanglement, dishonorable discharge, effort, emancipation, endeavor, endeavour, ending, extrication, inactivation, jail delivery, manumission, parole, probation, relief, removal, Section Eight, superannuation, termination, try, unsnarling, untangling | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Lib`er*a"tion\ (l[i^]b`[~e]r*[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L.
liberatio: cf. F. lib['e]ration. Cf. {Livraison}.]
The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from
all prejudged system. --Pownall.
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| | Related Terms: | | abstraction, annexation, appropriation, boosting, break, breakout, broad-mindedness, conversion, conveyance, deliverance, delivery, emancipation, embezzlement, emergence, enfranchisement, enfranchising, escape, escapism, evasion, extrication, filching, flight, fraud, free thought, freeing, freethinking, getaway, graft, issuance, issue, jailbreak, latitudinarianism, leak, leakage, liberalism, libertarianism, libertinism, lifesaving, lifting, loosing, open-mindedness, outlet, pilferage, pilfering, pinching, poaching, prisonbreak, ransom, recovery, redemption, release, releasing, rescue, rescuing, retrieval, riddance, salvage, salvation, saving, scrounging, setting-free, shoplifting, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, stealage, stealing, swindle, swiping, theft, thievery, thieving, tolerance, toleration, unbigotedness, unchaining, unfettering, unshackling, vent |
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