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LIBERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liberation mean? 

LIBERATION (noun)
  The noun LIBERATION has 3 senses:

1. the act of liberating someone or somethingplay

2. the attempt to achieve equal rights or statusplay

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

  Familiarity information: LIBERATION used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


LIBERATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of liberating someone or something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

freeing; liberation; release

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

accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)

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

jail delivery (the use of force to liberate prisoners)

deregulating; deregulation (the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations))

relief (the act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged)

disentanglement; extrication; unsnarling; untangling (the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition)

emancipation (freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child)

clearing (the act of freeing from suspicion)

manumission (the formal act of freeing from slavery)

parole ((law) a conditional release from imprisonment that entitles the person to serve the remainder of the sentence outside the prison as long as the terms of release are complied with)

probation ((law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them; a defendant found guilty of a crime is released by the court without imprisonment subject to conditions imposed by the court)

Derivation:

liberate (grant freedom to; free from confinement)

liberate (grant freedom to)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The attempt to achieve equal rights or status

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

she worked for women's liberation

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

attempt; effort; endeavor; endeavour; try (earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something)

Derivation:

liberate (grant freedom to)

liberate (give equal rights to; of women and minorities)


Sense 3

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

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

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

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)


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