dismissal

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

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Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu.

Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-

Proto-Italic *dis-

Latin dī-

Proto-Indo-European *mey-?

Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *méyth₂eti

Proto-Italic *meitō

Old Latin mītō

Latin mittō

Latin dīmittō, ~mittĕre, ~mīsī, ~missumlbor.

Middle English dismissen / dismisen

English dismiss

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālisbor.

Old French -albor.

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Latin -ālis

Old French -elbor.

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Latin -ālisbor.

Middle English -al

English -al

English dismissal

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [dɪsˈmɪsəɫ], [dɪzˈmɪsəɫ]

• Audio (Australia):

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• Hyphenation: dis‧mis‧sal

Noun

dismissal (countable and uncountable, plural dismissals)

1. The act of sending someone away.

   Synonym: heave-ho

3. 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.

4. A written or spoken statement of such an act.
5. Release from confinement; liberation.
6. Removal from consideration; putting something out of one's mind, mentally disregarding something or someone.
7. (law) The rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim or charge made therein.
8. (cricket) The event of a batsman getting out; a wicket.
9. (Christianity) The final blessing said by a priest or minister at the end of a religious service.

Derived terms

• antidismissal
• constructive dismissal
• letter of dismissal
• nondismissal
• predismissal
• redismissal
• summary dismissal
• unfair dismissal
• wrongful dismissal

Translations

act of sending someone away — see also conclusion,‎ cessation

• Bulgarian: отпращане n (otpraštane)
• Danish: bortsendelse c
• Finnish: häätäminen (fi)
• German: Wegschicken n, Abweisen n, Abweisung (de) f
• Hindi: निष्कासन m (niṣkāsan)
• Hungarian: elbocsátás (hu)
• Indonesian: pengusiran (id)
• Latin: dīmissiō f
• Portuguese: dispensa (pt) f
• Russian: ро́спуск (ru) m (róspusk)
• Spanish: despido (es) m
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: اذن (izn)

• Vietnamese: sự giải tán

deprivation of office

• Arabic: إِقَالَة f (ʔiqāla)
• Belarusian: звальне́нне n (zvalʹnjénnje)
• Bulgarian: уволне́ние (bg) n (uvolnénie)
• Catalan: destitució f, llicenciament m (military)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解僱 / 解雇 (zh) (jiěgù)

• Czech: propuštění (cs) n
• Danish: opsigelse c, fyring c, afskedigelse c
• Dutch: ontslag (nl) n
• Estonian: vallandamine
• Finnish: erottaminen (fi)
• French: limogeage (fr) m, licenciement (fr) m
• German: Entlassung (de) f, Kündigung (de) f, Abberufung (de) f
• Greek: απόλυση (el) f (apólysi)
• Hindi: पदच्युति (hi) f (padacyuti), सेवामुक्ति f (sevāmukti)
• Indonesian: pemecatan (id)
• Italian: licenziamento (it) m
• Japanese: 解雇 (ja) (かいこ, kaiko)
• Korean: 해고(解雇) (ko) (haego), 파직(罷職) (pajik)
• Latvian: atlaišana f
• Lithuanian: atleidimas m
• Macedonian: отпуштање n (otpuštanje), отпуст m (otpust)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppsigelse m

• Persian: برکناری (fa) (bar-kenâri)
• Polish: zwolnienie (pl) n, dymisja (pl) f
• Portuguese: dispensa (pt) f, demissão (pt) f, despedimento (pt) m
• Romanian: demitere (ro) f, concediere (ro) f
• Russian: увольне́ние (ru) n (uvolʹnénije), отста́вка (ru) f (otstávka), сокраще́ние (ru) n (sokraščénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: отпуштање n

  Latin: otpuštanje n

• Slovak: prepustenie n
• Slovene: odpustitev f, odpust m
• Spanish: destitución f
• Swedish: uppsägning (sv) c
• Tamil: பணிநீக்கம் (ta) (paṇinīkkam)
• Ukrainian: зві́льнення n (zvílʹnennja), звільня́ння n (zvilʹnjánnja)
• Urdu: بَرْخاسْتَگی f (barxāstagī)
• Vietnamese: sự giải tán (vi)

rejection of a legal proceeding, or a claim — see also rejection

• Bulgarian: отхвъ́рляне (bg) n (othvắrljane)
• Danish: afvisning c
• Finnish: hylkääminen (fi)
• French: non-lieu (fr) m
• German: Abweisung (de) f, Zurückweisung (de) f
• Hungarian: elutasítás (hu)
• Icelandic: frávísun f
• Portuguese: arquivamento (pt) m, arquivação f
• Romanian: revocare (ro) f, respingere (ro) f
• Russian: отклоне́ние (ru) n (otklonénije)
• Spanish: desistimiento (es) m, sobreseimiento m, desestimación (es) f
• Tagalog: pawalansaysay

References

• “dismissal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.