'Dismissal' definitions:
Definition of 'dismissal'
From: WordNet
noun
A judgment disposing of the matter without a trial [syn: judgment of dismissal, judgement of dismissal, dismissal]
noun
Official notice that you have been fired from your job [syn: dismissal, dismission, pink slip]
noun
Permission to go; the sending away of someone
noun
The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking]
Definition of 'Dismissal'
From: GCIDE
- Dismissal \Dis*miss"al\, n. Dismission; discharge. [1913 Webster]
- Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. --Motley. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dismissal'
From: Moby 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