dismissal

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Deprivation of office; the fact or process of being fired from employment or stripped of rank.

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

3. 3
   noun

   a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial

4. 4
   noun

   permission to go

5. 5
   noun

   official notice that you have been fired from your job

6. 6
   noun

   The act of sending someone away.

7. 7
   noun

   A written or spoken statement of such an act.

8. 8
   noun

   Release from confinement; liberation.

Etymology

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