dismissal

Meanings

Plural: dismissals

Noun

• a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial
• official notice that you have been fired from your job
• permission to go; the sending away of someone
• the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
• 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.
• The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
• The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.
• The final blessing said by a priest or minister at the end of a religious service.

Synonyms

discharge, dismission, firing, judgement of dismissal, judgment of dismissal, liberation, pink slip, release, sack, sacking