DISMISSAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dismissal mean? 

• DISMISSAL (noun)
  The noun DISMISSAL has 4 senses:

1. a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial

2. official notice that you have been fired from your job

3. permission to go; the sending away of someone

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

  Familiarity information: DISMISSAL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISMISSAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A judgment disposing of the matter without a trial

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dismissal; judgement of dismissal; judgment of dismissal

Hypernyms ("dismissal" is a kind of...):

judgement; judgment; judicial decision ((law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

dismiss (cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Official notice that you have been fired from your job

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

dismissal; dismission; pink slip

Hypernyms ("dismissal" is a kind of...):

notice (advance notification (usually written) of the intention to withdraw from an arrangement of contract)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dismissal"):

marching orders; walking papers ((informal) a notice of dismissal or discharge)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Permission to go; the sending away of someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("dismissal" is a kind of...):

permission (approval to do something)

Derivation:

dismiss (end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

discharge; dismissal; dismission; firing; liberation; release; sack; sacking

Hypernyms ("dismissal" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dismissal"):

superannuation (the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension))

conge; congee (an abrupt and unceremonious dismissal)

removal (dismissal from office)

deactivation; inactivation (breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges))

honorable discharge (a discharge from the armed forces with a commendable record)

dishonorable discharge (a discharge from the armed forces for a grave offense (as sabotage or espionage or cowardice or murder))

Section Eight (a discharge from the US Army based on unfitness or character traits deemed undesirable)

Derivation:

dismiss (terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position)

 Context examples 

He also received his dismissal, his half-sovereign, and the order to wait.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That was our first drama at Hurlstone; but a second one came to drive it from our minds, and it was prefaced by the disgrace and dismissal of butler Brunton.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But he did not venture to give him his dismissal, for he dreaded lest he should strike him and all his people dead, and place himself on the royal throne.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was Mary's hope and belief that he had received a positive dismissal from Henrietta, and her husband lived under the constant dependence of seeing him to-morrow.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Catherine sometimes started at the boldness of her own surmises, and sometimes hoped or feared that she had gone too far; but they were supported by such appearances as made their dismissal impossible.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The ravages committed by this unfortunate, rendering her dismissal necessary, she was succeeded (with intervals of Mrs. Kidgerbury) by a long line of Incapables; terminating in a young person of genteel appearance, who went to Greenwich Fair in Dora's bonnet.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had to reinstate himself in all the wonted concerns of his Mansfield life: to see his steward and his bailiff; to examine and compute, and, in the intervals of business, to walk into his stables and his gardens, and nearest plantations; but active and methodical, he had not only done all this before he resumed his seat as master of the house at dinner, he had also set the carpenter to work in pulling down what had been so lately put up in the billiard-room, and given the scene-painter his dismissal long enough to justify the pleasing belief of his being then at least as far off as Northampton.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They came therefore to a decision, betook themselves in a body to the king, and begged for their dismissal.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He steadily refused to accompany his father into Herefordshire, an engagement formed almost at the moment to promote the dismissal of Catherine, and as steadily declared his intention of offering her his hand.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He repeated that the matter was of the utmost importance, and added that no steps would be taken about my future—by which he means, of course, my dismissal—until my health was restored and I had an opportunity of repairing my misfortune.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)