dismissal
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English
Etymology
From dismiss + -al. A nineteenth-century coinage (modelled on committal etc.), replacing the regular form dismission.
Pronunciation
Noun
dismissal (countable and uncountable, plural dismissals)
- The act of sending someone away.
- Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.
- 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.
- (Christianity) The final blessing said by a priest or minister at the end of a religious service.
Derived terms
Translations
act of sending someone away
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deprivation of office
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rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim
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