dismissal

English

Etymology

From dismiss +‎ -al. A nineteenth-century coinage (modelled on committal etc.), replacing the regular form dismission.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: [dɪsˈmɪsəɫ], [dɪzˈmɪsəɫ]

Noun

dismissal (plural dismissals)

1. The act of sending someone away.
2. ​Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, The Hocussing of Cigarette^[1]:

     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.

3. A written or spoken statement of such an act.
4. Release from confinement; liberation.
5. Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.
6. (law) The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
7. (cricket) The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.

Translations

act of sending someone away

• Bulgarian: отпращане

• Russian: роспуск (ru) (rospusk) m

deprivation of office

• Bulgarian: уволнение (bg) (uvolnénie) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解僱 (cmn), 解雇 (cmn) (jiěgù)

• Dutch: ontslag (nl) n
• French: limogeage (fr) m

• German: Entlassung (de) f
• Greek: απόλυση (el) (apólissi) f
• Japanese: 解雇 (ja) (かいこ, kaiko)
• Russian: увольнение (ru) (uvol'nénije) n, отставка (ru) (otstavka) f, сокращение (ru) (sokraščenije) n

rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim

• Bulgarian: отхвърляне (bg) (othvǎrljane)
• French: non-lieu (fr) m

• Russian: отклонение (ru) (otklonenije) n