Dismissal - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Dismissal :  (noun)
1: a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial [syn: judgment of dismissal, judgement of dismissal]
2: official notice that you have been fired from your job [syn: dismission, pink slip]
3: permission to go; the sending away of someone
4: the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) [syn: dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking]

Based on WordNet 2.0

Dismissal : \Dis*miss"al\, n. Dismission; discharge.

Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. --Motley.

Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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