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DISCHARGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does discharged mean? 

DISCHARGED (adjective)
  The adjective DISCHARGED has 1 sense:

1. having lost your jobplay

  Familiarity information: DISCHARGED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISCHARGED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having lost your job

Synonyms:

discharged; dismissed; fired; laid-off; pink-slipped

Similar:

unemployed (not engaged in a gainful occupation)


 Context examples 


By the luckiest chance in the world, I had not discharged myself of any part of it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In due time, Mr. Micawber's petition was ripe for hearing; and that gentleman was ordered to be discharged under the Act, to my great joy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To confirm that lithium plating did not occur, they later fully discharged the cells and opened them for analysis.

(Modern Battery Design Can Charge Electric Car in 10 Minutes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A “miners’ meeting,” called on the spot, decided that the dog had sufficient provocation, and Buck was discharged.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

After seven days he was well enough to be discharged with the advice not to block both nostrils when sneezing in future.

(Blocking A Sneeze, Man Ruptures Throat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

With that he heaved a great sigh, and then, as if he had discharged his duty to the past, put his feet up on the sofa and enjoyed Amy's letter luxuriously.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

THe process by which waste matter is discharged from the body

(Excretion, NCI Thesaurus)

"Such," said Colonel Brandon, after a pause, "has been the unhappy resemblance between the fate of mother and daughter! and so imperfectly have I discharged my trust!"

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“I watched at the gate, same as you advised, Mr. Holmes,” said our emissary, the discharged gardener.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Doctor,” said the captain, “you are smart. When I came in here I meant to get discharged. I had no thought that Mr. Trelawney would hear a word.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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