DISMISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dismission mean? 

• DISMISSION (noun)
  The noun DISMISSION has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: DISMISSION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISMISSION (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("dismission" 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 "dismission"):

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

Sense 2

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 ("dismission" is a kind of...):

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

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

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 

My conduct may, I fear, be objectionable in having accepted my dismission from your daughter's lips instead of your own.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)